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fort of white and yellow clay, of the better fort of which tobacco 
pipes have formerly been made, fix feet ; under this, a layer of 
fand of the fame nature as that of the fea below, fix feet ; beneath 
which is a layer of rounded fmooth ftones, fuch as the beach of the 
fea affords. Under this, four feet deep of a white ftony rubble and 
earth, and then the firm rock, in which tin lodes fhape their courfe. 
In both thefe inftances the fea fand is lodged far above the level of 
the prefent fea. In Por’nanvon cliff* it is at a medium 1 5 feet 
higher than full-fea mark : five and twenty Miles off*, on the 
grounds of St. Agnes, near the Beacon, it is near 500 feet above 
the Sea. Other infiances of the fame unnatural fituation of marine 
bodies, (which I here purpofely omit) are to be found in other 
countries, as in Holland, Italy, and elfewhere, which have made all 
the chief Naturaliffs 2 agree, that at one time or other, fome of the 
higheff mountains, as well as champaign lands, have been parts of 
the bottom of the fea, though now fo much higher a . And indeed 
let us re-confider and turn thefe circumftances into every poffible 
light, and it muff at laff be confefled, that the bed of the fea has been 
undoubtedly moved upwards more in fome than in other places, (of 
which I take thefe two before-mentioned inftances to be irrefragable 
proofs) and it may be added, not only in Cornwall, but through- 
out the univerfe. But how, and when this happened, how thefe 
fands became promoted to their prefent ftation, is not eafily decided. 
That fifli of all forts, fhould raife themfelves to the tops of mountains 
with the waters of the deluge is not fo wonderful ; that they fhould 
be intangled, fuffocated, and deferted there, as the waters retired, 
and precipitated by defcending torrents into bodies £of diflolved 
earths and ftones, is alfo eafy to conceive, but here the bottom of the 
fea has been raifed, fixed, and become dry land. No earthquake 
could be the caufe of this, for the convulfions of an earthquake 
would not leave the pebbles and fands fo horizontally placed, as in 
Por’nanvon cliff, nor the clays, fands, and fhingle, fo orderly and 
fpecifically ranged, and the folid rock fo firm and unfhaken under- 
neath, as in St. Agnes hills. The caufe of this elevation was there- 
fore equal to the force of earthquakes, but gentle and equable, act- 
ing under certain laws and rcftricfions, in order to accompli/h fome 
great event ; an event requiring and worthy of fuch aftonifhing al- 
terations. This great event could be no other than the univerfal 
deluge ; I do not produce thefe phenomena, the tranflation of 
fands, as diretft natural proofs of the deluge, (that refts fufficiently firm 
upon revelation, as well as the exuvics of marine animals every where 
difperfed on dry land,) but as plain intimations of the manner in which 
z See Varenius’s Geog. lib. i. prop. 7. and a Ray’s Phyfico-theological Difcourfes, pa. 130, 
Rohalt ii. Vol. p. 159. Steno’s Prodromus, &c. 148, 214, 215, &C. third edition. 
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