t^O) 
o£ Animals or Plants, *cis certain^ that 
fuch Beds are not to be reckoned among 
thofe, which in the Creation did fubfide 
from the firft Fluid. ^ 
3. If any Bed do give us notice of any. 
Sea'-fait, of fpoiles of Sea-animals, of 
Ship boards, and we fliall finde the like 
fubifances at the bottom of the Sea; ’tis 
certain, that one time or other the Sea 
hath been there, in what manner foever, 
whether by its own overflowing, or by 
eruptions of Mountains, it got thither. . 
4. If in fpme Bed or other we hrid a 
plenty of Reed, Grafs, Pine-Apples, 
Branches or Bodies of Trees, or the. like^, 
we may fufpe6f,that that matter was car¬ 
ried thither by the overflowing of a Ri¬ 
ver, or the fall of a torrent, 
5. If in a Bed there be Coals, Aflies,’ 
Pamice-Oiones and calcined Bo« 
dies, 'tis certain, that neer that Fluid 
there hath been an Eruption of Fire, and 
that the rather,if the whole Bed be made 
up of meer Allies and Coals: Of wHch 
kind I have feen one without the City of 
Borne, whei 
Bricks, 
■ 6 * If in 
H- - ^ . . ■ 
re they digg out matter tor 
tbe fame place the Matter of 
