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fcRly in t\sQ AntidiluvUn World, to have been the 
bottom of fome frefti Water Lake, becaufe that thofe^ 
are frcfh Water Shell-fifti that are found there, and the 
bed upon which they breed, was a fine blue Clay, 
which. is the colour of the Stone to this day, which 
Bed being elevated and lifted up, fand dafti'd overAvith 
other Earth in the w^orkings of the Waters, and the* 
great hurry andconfufion that then happen'd) the faid 
Bed by the power of the fubterraneous Elevating heats, 
iteams, and. Effluviums were turned by Degrees into 
Stone with all the Fifhes therein. 
I have before told you, that fome of the Shell-fifli in 
the fame Bed, are. not full of the matter of the Bed^ but 
of fiuors, tho fucharenot very common : Some- might 
v/onder , feeing that the Shells are clcfed, that the 
Matter ot. the Bed could infinuate itfelf into them 5 but 
that is nething, but what is com.raon in like cafes, for 
I have frequently feen in the bottoms of Ponds and 
R:ivers,where fuch Shell-filh in plenty aFe,that when the 
Fife is dead andconfumed, and the Shellin the Mud, 
with the Edges as clofe as if the Fifh was alive, that ne- 
v^rthelefs theMudorGlay will by degrees infinuate and 
fill the fame, and now if the bottom of any one of the 
faid Rivers or Ponds was raifed by Earthquakes, and 
turned into Stone by petrific Effluviums, they would 
exactly be found as thefeare. 
That many Shell.fi(h fufFered fuch wonderful great 
violence and force in the faid great Flood 5- infomuch,' 
as to be cruih'd, and bruifed, and fqueez'd flat, as fome 
of thofe manifeftly are, that I have fent you, is like- 
v/ife nothing ftrange or wonderful, if we do but con* 
(ider the great pieces of rifing Rocks, and Hills, and 
Mountains, that muft needs roll down and fall in fucb 
a general hurry and contufion as that muft needs have 
been in the Quarry, at the Eaft end of this Town of 
BiohghtQn^ where fragments of. Innumerable Shells arc 
found. 
