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in jOther places does upon the Earth: That the Sea by 
th^fe means being forced off, and having left many parts 
of the Globe that it heretofore pofleft, it alfo left there 
behind it Ihells and other Sea-Produftioos, 
But to thefe Opinions our Author replyes, that they 
are deftitute of all true Foundation, and repugoaoE to 
Obfervation ; that on them can never paffibiy be ac- 
counted for the Circuraftances of thefe Marine Bodies, as 
their being lodged in the middle of Rocks, their Num- 
bers, Order, Variety, depth in the Earth, diftance from 
any Sea, and the like. So that though fuch Changes as 
they fuppofe had really happened, yet thefe Shells, 
could never by them have been put into the condition 
wherein they are now found but he further adds, that 
there is not any Reafon to believe that fuch Changes 
did ever happen, they having not the leaft Countenance 
either from the prefent face of the Earth, or any Credi- 
ble and Authentick Records of the Ancient ftate of it, 
but that the Globe is to this day nearly in the fame con- 
dition that the Univerfal Deluge left it. Laftly, he en- 
quires what it vyas that mifled fo many Learned Men, 
efpecially amongft the Ancients, into a belief of fuch 
Alterations of Sea aAd Land, Ihewing that it was chiefly 
their meeting with thefe Shells in their Fields and Quar- 
ries. 
In the Second Part he treats of the Univerfal Deluge, 
. to prove that thefe Marine Bodies were then left at Land^ 
and that at the Deluge there were made feveral very 
great and ftrange Alte/ations in the Terreftm! Giobe, 
particularly that the whole Globe was then diflblvedjthe 
Particles of Stone, Marble, and all other Solid Foffilf dif- 
fevered, taken up into the Water, and there fuftaioed, 
together with Sea-fliellsjand other Animal and Vegetable 
Bodies : That at length all thefe fubfided from the Wa- 
t€r,according to» the order of their Gravity ; the heavieft 
Bodies firft, thetn thofe which were lighter, but all that 
T 2. had 
