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The Earth, which makes the Hill, feems to have 
been a prodigious Mafs of Matter, roll’d along by 
the irrefiftible Force of that immenfe Body of Wa- 
ter, and afterwards lodg'd upon it. 
That this might be the Cafe, the immenfe Force 
of that vaft Quantity of Water, and the Eafe with 
which heavy Bodies are moved in Water, may fervc 
to make probable j and what the more favours the 
Conjecture is, that the Earth which makes the Hill 
is not difpofed in fuch regular pure Strata as the 
Earths fettled regularly from the Waters always are, 
but feems evidently a mixed Mafs, made by the jum- 
bling together of various Kinds of Clay, &c. which 
are, in fome Parts of it found pure, tho’ not in 
whole Strata--, and in others irregularly blended in 
different Proportions one with another ; which, as 
the principal Matters that compofe it are of very 
different Colours, m. a red and a white Clay, is 
the more apparent. And this is further confirm’d, 
by there being none of thofe common extraneous 
Nodules found lodged in it, which are fo frequent 
in the Strata of Clay formed by Subfidence ; fuch 
as the Ludus Helmontii , Tyritre, &c. Thefe have 
fettled with, and lodged themfelves almoft every- 
-wherc among thofe Strata ; but it is no Wonder 
there are none of them here, if this Hill has been 
formed, as I imagine; fince, in the rolling it along, 
they muft naturally have been left behind : And I pro- 
mife myfelf, that the Frequency of thefe Bodies in 
almoft all our little Clay-pits, and the intire Abfence of 
them in the vaft Quantities of Clay that have been 
dug here, will be efteemed, by all who have look’d 
deeply into thefe Studies, one great Argument of 
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