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teckon^d abqut 40Q0 Years to thefe oiir 
days; Nor doth it feem confonatit to 
reafon^ that the part qf an Animal Body 
(hould lb long refift the injuries of fo 
many Years,fince we fee,that often with¬ 
in the Ipaee of a few Years the fame Bo¬ 
dies are deliroy'd totally. But this Ob- 
jedion may eafily be anfwer’d, by faying, 
that that whole bufinefs depends from 
the diverfity of the Soil; For,I have leen 
Beds of a Clayie kind, which by the thinr 
nefs and finenefs of its |uyce did refolve 
all Bodies inclos'd in its but I have ob- 
ferved Sandy Beds* which prelerved all 
Bodies lodged therein 5 by which experi¬ 
ment we may be led to the knowledg of 
that juice, which refolveth folid Bodies, 
But that ’tis certain, that the produdion 
of rn,any Shells,we meet with 
sMis found h. in our days, is to, be referr'd 
coincident wfth 
P£%. the General Deluge, the fol¬ 
lowing argument evinceth. 
•Tis certain, that before the foundati* 
bn of the City of Rome, the Town of Fo* 
laterra was then already powerful 5 but 
in thole huge Stones, which in Ibme pla¬ 
ces are found there (b^ing the remaind- 
