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'Gefmrde Pifcibus p. sgi, only the is much longer. 
>f have found- alfo multitudes of Belemnites^ great arid 
little, perforated and flat at the Root, by which they 
grew in tht AntidUuvian Sea, unto fome of which I 
have found h'ttle Shell- fifh fticking. • 
From all this, and from the like petrify'd Shell-fifbs^ 
of all forts of Creatures found lodged in Rocks and 
•Stones, and the Bowels of the Earth ovqx the whole 
World, it does moft fully and fufficiently appear, that 
there was a time when that the Water overflowed all 
our Earth, which could be none but the Noachian 
Deluge. 
It appears alfo that in that Deluge the Earth fufFered 
wonderful great violence and force, that Seas were 
raifed into Mountains, and Mountains funk into Seas> 
that Beds of Shells had fometiraes fuch Weights of 
Earth, and pieces of Mountains, and Rocks flung upon 
them, that they were crufhed in pieces, and others 
fqueez'd flat, &c. 
Now the difficult thing is how this Deluge happen- 
ed, and how thefe Shells come thus to be found over 
the face of the whole Earth, and even deep in its bow- 
els, I know very well the great difputes and contefts 
that are amongft the Learned, concerning thefe two 
particulars, and what wounderful Syfteras and Theories 
they have formed to folve the fame, all v/hich have 
a great deal more of Art than Nature in them. 
My notion of the Anttdiluvian World is, that it had 
an external Sea as well as Land, and Mountains, Hills^ 
Rivers, and Fruitful Fields and Plains, that it was- a- 
bout the bignefs that our Earth is at prefent of ^ and 
that when God had a mind, for the wickednefs of the 
Inhabitants that dwelt thereon, to deftroy the fame by 
Water, he broke the Foundations and Snbterranecus 
■Caverns and Pillars thereof, with moft dreadful Earth- 
quakes, and caufed the fame to be for the moft. parr, if 
O o o o o -no t 
