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fuch a Heap as the Poets defcribe the old Chaos ; for 
fuch a Choc impelling the folid Parts would occafion 
the Waters, and all fluid Subfiances that were uncon- 
fined, as the Sea is, with one Impetus to run violent- 
ly towards that Part of the Globe where the Blow was 
received ; and that with Force fufficient to rake with 
it the whole Bottom of the Ocean, and to carry it 
upon the Land ; heaping up into Mountains .thofe 
earthy Parts it had born away with it, in thofe Places 
where the oppofne Waves balance each other, mif- 
cens ima fummis , which may account for thofe long 
continued Ridges of Mountains. And again, the Re- 
coil of this Heap of Waters would return towards the 
oppofite Parts of the Earth, with aJefler Impetus than 
the firfl, and fo reciprocating many times, would at 
lafl come to fettle in fuch a Manner as we now obferve 
in the Structure of the fuperficial Parts of the Globe. 
In this Cafe it will be much more difficult to lhew 
how Noah and the Animals fhould be prelerved, than 
that all things in which was the Breath of Life, fhould 
hereby be deflroyed. Such a Choc would alfo occafi- 
on a differing Length of the Day and Y ear, and change 
the Axis of the Globe, according to the Obliquity of 
the Incidence of the Stroak, and the Dire&ion there- 
of, in relation to the former Axis. That fome fuch 
thing has happened, may be guefs’d, for that the Earth 
feems as if it were new made out of the Ruins of an 
old World, wherein appear fuch Animal Bodies as 
were before the Deluge, but by their own Nature and 
Defences from the Weather, have endured ever fince, 
either petrified, or elie entire i njiatu natural i. Such 
a Choc may have occafioned that vafl Deprelfion of the 
Cafpian Sea , and other great Lakes in the World ; and 
J tis not unlikely, but that extream Cold felt in the 
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