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,Quer. 10. May not the Augmentation of the Quan- 
tity of Matter in the Earth and Inferior Planets, by 
the continued Accumulation of the Zodiacal Matter 
on their Surfaces during a long Courfe of feveral Ages, 
produce, among other things, fome Alteration in 
their Periodical Motions ? 
.Quer. 21, &c. May not the Atmofphere and 
Tgil of a Comet he owing to the Zodiacal Matter, 
which the Comet during its PalTage through the At- 
mofphere of the Sun intercepts, and afterwards car- 
ries away with it, in its Afcent from the Sun ? 
Quer. 18. Is not the Earth fafe enough from all 
Danger of any Inundation, much more of an Uni- 
verfal Deluge, tho’ it fhould pafs thro’ the Atmof- 
phere, or Tail of a Comet? fince the Effects of 
fuch a Paflage can only be an Aurora Borealis , 
whofe Matter is not at all of a watry vaporous Nature ? 
A Conflagration rather than an Inundation might 
have been imagined to be the natural Confequence,but 
Experience informs us, that if this Hy pot hefis be ad- 
mitted as genuine, that our Earth has been entirely 
plunged in this Zodiacal Matter without any fenfi- 
ble Heat attending it, 
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