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of our Climate, as to Heat and Cold, to have been 
greatly alter’d : And, without fuch a Suppoftdon, it 
would be no lefs unreafonable to imagine they would 
wander hither from warmer Regions, though even all 
the Quarters of the Globe fhould have been conti- 
guous. 
What Changes have happened to our Earth, and 
how they have been produced, no human Wifdom 
can poflibly find out with any Certainty : But fuppofe 
only the Polar Points, or Axis thereof, to have been 
fhifted at any time but a few Degrees, and its Cen- 
tre of Gravity to have been alter’d (which fome great 
Men have imagined not improbable), what Convul- 
ftons in Nature, what an univerfal Change in the 
Pace of Things, rauft thereby have been occafioned ! 
What Inundations, or Deluges of Water, bearing every 
thing before them ! What Breaches in the Earth, what 
Hurricanes and Tempefts, muft have attended fuch an 
Event! For the Waters muft have been roll’d along, 
till, by them, an Equipoife was produced. In 
fliort, all Parts of the World would thereby acquire 
different Degrees of Heat and Cold than what they 
had before. Seas would be formed where Continents 
had been : Continents would be torn in funder, or 
perhaps ip lit into Hlands. The antient Bed of the 
Sea would be changed into dry Land, and appear 
covered at firft with Shells, and other marine Bodies , 
of which the Aflion and nitrous Salts of the Air 
would, in a few Years, moulder away and turn to 
Duft thofe upon the Surface ; but fuch as were buried 
deep would be preferved and remain for many Ages. 
Such would probably have been the Fate of inani- 
mate Things". And as to living Creatures, - they muft 
have 
