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North-Well of America , about Hudfon’s-Bay , may 
be occafvoned by thofe Parts of the World having 
once been much more Northerly, or nearer the Pole 
than now they are; whereby there are immenie 
Quantities of Ice yet unthaw’d in thofe Parts, which 
chill the Air to that degree, that the Sun’s warmth 
feems hardly to be felt there, and of which the Poet 
might juflly fay, Frigus iners illic habitat j> at torque 
tremorque — - Ac Jejuna fames. 
If this Speculation feem worthy to be cultivated, 1 
fhall not be wanting farther to infill on the Confequences 
thereof, and to fhew how it may render a probable 
Account of the llrange Cataftrophe we may be lure 
has at leafl once happened to the Earth. 
VIII. Some farther Thoughts upon the fame SuhjeEl, 
delivered on the i pth of the fame Month. <By 
the fame. 
I H A V E been advifed fince the lalt Day, by a Per- 
fon whole Judgment I have great Reafon to reipedf, 
that what I then advanced, ought rather to be under- 
flood of thofe Changes which might have happen’d to 
the Earth in Times before the Creation, and which 
might poifibly have reduc’d a former World to a 
Chaos, out of whofe Ruins the prefent might be 
formed, than of the Deluge whereby Mankind was in 
a manner extinguiihed about 4000 Years fince; that 
being much more gradually brought to pais, and with 
fome Circumftances that this Hypothefis cannot admit 
of, which abler Pens, perhaps, may account for : 
What I have advanced, I defire may be taken for no 
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