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both in England and other Countries, iDbewing that they 
were depoled there by the Deluge, and by what means 
they have been prefer ved down to our Times. 
The Third Part, which is concerning the Fluids of the 
Globe^he fubdivides into two Sedions,- the former where- 
of comprehends the Prefent and Natural ftate of the 
Water within and upon the Earth, fhewing that there is 
a vaft maft of Water inclofed in the Bowels of the Earthy 
which is what Mofes calls the Great Abyfs: That this 
Abyfs communicates with the Ocean by means of cer- 
tain Hiatus $ paffing betwixt them, and is the ftanding 
Fund which fupplies Water to the furfaee of the Earth, 
as well Springs and Rivers, as Vapours and Rain : That 
there is a nearly Uniform and conilant Fire or Heat dif* 
feminated throughout the Body of Earth whieh evapo* 
rates the Water of the Abyfs, elevating it thence up to 
the furfaee of the Earth, where part of it iiTues forth in 
Vapour, afcends into the Atmofphsere, and is returned 
back again in Rain, &c, the reft (by a particular Pofture 
and Mechanifm of the Strata near the furfaee of the 
Earth, which the Author defcribes) is coodeofed or col- 
leded, and fenc firth in Springs and Rivers; the feve- 
ral Circumftances of which he confiders and accounts for, 
as alfD the final Caufe of this Diftribution of Water ro the 
furfaee of the Earth : That this Subterranean Heat is the 
caufe of Earthquakes, the many ftrange Phenomena of 
which he relates, ftiewing whence each proceeds: That 
Fulcanoes, fu:h as jEtna and Fefuvhis^ are nothing but 
Eruptions or Oith^^rges of this Subterraasan Fire^ aod_ 
that the thermce or Hot Springs alfo owe their Heat en- 
tirely uato ir. In the iatter Sedioii of this Part he treats 
of the Univerfallty of the. Deluge ; fnews where that- 
mighty Volume of Water which overflowed the E^^rrh 
in the days of IJaah is now conceaied : Errquires wnat 
time of the Year the Deluge began ; in wn;it Order,and. 
at what Apertures the Water the-^x/? was brought^ 
out upon the Earth, as alfb how r^^u eatvd back agaio. 
In- 
