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produced fuch effects, However, unprejudiced to 
any opinion, if the learned, who favour the fyftem 
of partial deluges, will either confute thefe my af- 
fertions, or give folid reafons for the fadts alleged to 
be producible by local deluges, aberrations, &c. I will 
joyfully embrace the truth : but till then, my Lord, 
I would recommend to thofe fyftematical gentlemen, 
not to pervert that excellent maxim of the great 
Lord Bacon, and, inftead of Non jingendum neque 
excogitandum , Jed inveniendum quid natura faciat , 
aut j'erat , not to corrupt it into jingendum atque ex- 
cogitandum, non inveniendum quid natura faciat , aut 
ferat. 
J am, with great fubmiffion and refpedt, 
My Loro, 
Your Lordfhip’s 
Moft devoted, 
London, 27 April, and moft obliged, 
* 757 - 
humble Servant, 
Emanuel Meades da Cofta. 
II h a 
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