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vious and remarkable Pbxtiomena, in the externa! Face 
cf the Globe, confequenc to its Formation, as fee forth 
in the Mo fuc Account; and of fome Changes it fuf- 
fer’d at the univerfal Catacljfm, and Proofs of chat 
great Cata/irepbe of the animal and vegetable World in 
Plants, Shells, and Parts of living Creatures found in 
Rocks and Qiiarries. 
Its remarkable, that all the Stone Pits about the 
Country whence this came, abound with prodigious 
Quantities of Shells, and the like, and the greaceO: 
part of the Subfiance of the Scone is a Compofition 
of them. There are many Account'' of them in the 
Tranfa^ions, and this Stone has many Shells of dif- 
ferent kinds in it. S'r Hans Sloan has a Fidi-Sceleton, 
amongfl his immenfe Treafure of Curiofities, found 
near this Place, given by the Duke of Rutl-n-^ If 
we look upon a Map of the Coun.ry, and obferve 
the Lincolnfhire Alfos which 1 fpoke of before, how 
they run 50 Miles North and ^outh, and on the Well 
fide are fleep and rocky, we may fee the Reafdn why 
thefe Quarries (liould be fo fluft with them ; for it 
is juft to conceive, that upon retiring of the^ Waters 
of the Deluge from the Superficies of this Country, 
into the Eaftern Seas, tliele heavy Bodies met a full 
flop, and were intercepted by thisCiifF, which has re- 
tain’d fuch vaft Quantities of them ever fince: whflft 
thofe which fell upon common Mold are moftiy rotten, 
and now loft. 
Sir I^aac t^evoton^ DocSlrine of the Attraction of tne 
Particles of Matter, according to the Quantity of its 
Solidity, Proximity, and Surface, efpecially that it is irs- 
finitely greater in the point of Contaft, upon which 
depends its Cohefioii and all- the Varieties of Phyficat 
Adiod, will eafily direct us to a Notion of PetrifJ 
(tion. We karn how a proper Degree o-f Heat or Cold, 
Kkkkkkk 2, Moifturs, 
