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V. An Account of BOOKS. 
I. An Effay toward a Natural Hifiory of the Earth, and 
Terrefirial Bodies^ efpecially Minerals : As aljo of the 
Seay Rivers, and Springs. With an Account of 'the 
ZJniverfal Deluge^ and of the Effects that it had upon 
the Earth. By John Woodward, D, Profeffor of 
Phyfick in Grelham College, and Fe/low of the Royal 
Society. Printed for Ric. Wilkin at the King ^ Head 
in St. PauFj Church-yard. 1695. Oftavo. 
THE Author of this Book having with great In- 
duftry, and no lefs Succefs, made Enquiry into 
many confiderable Parts of Nature, hath thought fit 
here to fet forth an Account of fevcral cf his Obferva- 
tions, and of certain ConcJufions which he hath drawn 
from them, whereof many are indeed oi great weight 
and moment, but all in a compendious manner, as in- 
tending this Difcourfe only as a Prcelude to one much 
larger, and to comply with the Importunities of fome 
Perfonsof Worth, who requefted a brief Account of 
thefe things from liim, for their prefentSatisfadion, until 
his Affairs ftiould permit the compleating of his Greater 
Work, which he promifeih, with a further Proof both of 
thefe, and of others not yet propofed. Which how able 
he is to perform, he hath (hewn in this prefent Effay. 
He begins with an Account of his Obfervations upon 
thegroffer and more mafly parts of theTerreftrial Globe, 
all which lye Stratum fuper Stratum in the Earth 1 
fuch as Marble, Stone, Cosl, Chalk, Sand, Gravel, Clay, 
Marie, and other forts of Earth. Amongft other things, 
he obferves that there are lodged vaft Numbers of Sea- 
fliells,and other Marine Bodies,in thefe Terreftrial Strata, 
as well as in the more folidooes, (as Stone and Marble, 
wherewith they are incorporated, being lodged amongd 
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