delights of Nature^ fwallow'd up in the Atlantick 
cean by d readful Storms, and a huge Earthquake and 
Flood, I queftion not at all, but that this was the Anti- 
diluvian World that they meant, a very great part of 
which was abforb'd and drowned there, which ac- 
count thereof they might have both by Books and Tra- 
dition from their Fore» fathers, feeing that one of them 
that V7as in the very Ark, was the firft that peopled 
Egypt. 
From this happy fyftem of the Flood,alI thofe things 
are eafily folved that were hard and difficult before, 
there needs not that great and immenfe Quantity ot 
Waters to work the EfFed that was abfolutely neceffary 
in all former folutions of the Deluge, &c> And thus 
it comes to pafs that we find Shells and Shell-fifti, and 
the Bones of other Fifties and four-footed . Creatures, 
and Fruits, &c, petrify'd and lodged in Stone, Rocks, 
Mountains, Quarries and Pits over our v^hole Earth 3 
for it was then the proper Place for them to breed ii\ 
and upon, and to be found in aad upon at this pre- 
fent. 
So that it is no wonder that the aforefaid things arc 
found, as they commonly are in Beds and Quarries in 
frills, and Mountains, and in the Bowels of the Earthy 
for here they bred in the Antidiluvian Sea^ thither they 
wert^ elevated with the Hills and Mountains in the time 
of the Deluge, there they tell into, were abforb'd, and 
bury'd in Chafms,and Holes.and Clefts that would ne- 
cefiaiily happen in the.thrufting up of the Earth, and 
be found in the vSoil that was flung and carried with 
wonderful Violence and Confufion from one place to 
another, by the working of the Waters, and the fer- 
ment and hurry that they were put into» 
And as all Countries were thusraifedout of the bot- 
tom of the A/Hidiluv/a?/ Sea and Lakes, fothat part of 
the Country about Bronghton aforefaid, appears mani- 
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