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©f, according to the lately mentioned 
Method, it would be tedious, totran- 
fcribc all the Obfervations together with 
the Conclufions thence deduced.VVhere- 
fore I lhallhere relate only, fometimes 
Conclufions, fometimes Obfervations, 
according as it fliall f 
indicate things with 
nefs. 
Now therefdre that in the Refoludon 
of Queftions about Natural things moft 
Doubts remain not only undecided, but 
are for the greateft part of them,accord¬ 
ing to the number of WriterSjincreafed, 
this feems to me chiefly to depend from 
Caules. 
The Firfl is, that few Men undertake 
to difeuffe thole difficulties, without 
the refolution of which the clearing of 
the Queftion remains imperfed. Of this 
the Argument now under confideration 
affords an eminent Example. The Anci¬ 
ents were exerciled with one only diffi¬ 
culty, which was, How Marine Bodies 
came to be left in Places remote from 
the Sea 5 nor was it ever made a quefti¬ 
on amongft you. Whether fuch Bodies 
came from any mce elfe than the Sea. 
But 
eem mott proper to 
brevity and plain- 
