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cile. Dr. Hook's Solution of this Problem, as he has 
not fully difcovered himlelf, I cannot undertake to 
judge of ; but his Compreffion of a Shell of Earth 
into a prolate Spheroide , thereby prefiing out the Wa- 
ters of an Abyfs under the Earth, may very well ac- 
count for drowning two extream oppofite Zones of 
the Globe ; but the middle Zone, being by much the 
greater Part of the Earth’s Surface, mu ft by this means 
be raifed higher from the Center, and confequently 
arife more out of the Water than before ; andbefides, 
fuch a Suppofition cannot well be accounted for from 
Phyfical Caufes, but require a preternatural digitus 
*!Dei 9 both to comprels, and afterwards reftore the 
Figure of the Globe. 
But the Almighty generally making ufe of Natural 
Means to bring about his Will, I thought it not amifs 
to give this Honourable Society an Account of fome 
Thoughts that occurr’d to me on this Subjedf ; where- 
in, if I err, I ihall find my felf in very good Company. 
In Num* 190. of thefe Tranladlions, I have pro- 
pofed the cafual Choc of a Comet , or other transient 
Body, as an Expedient to change inftantly the Poles 
and Diurnal Rotation of the Globe; at that Time on- 
ly aiming to ihew how the Axis of the Earth being 
chang’d, would occafion the Sea to recede from thole 
Parts towards which the Poles did approach, and to 
encreale upon and overflow thofe Parts wherefrom the 
Poles were departed ; but at that Time 1 did not con- 
fider the great Agitation fuch a Choc mud neceflarily 
occafion in the Sea, fufficient to anfwer for all thole 
ftrange Appearances of heaping vail Quantities of 
Earth and high Cliffs upon Beds of Shells, which 
once were the Bottom of the Sea; and raifing up Moun- 
tains where none were before, mixing the Elements into 
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