attentively view’d by mei fo I cdnfirrii 
it to be true of the whole Earthy from the 
Defcriptions of many places deliver'd by 
divers Authors, But leaft there lliould 
be apprehended any da’iger in the novel¬ 
ty, I fliali in fliort lay down the agree¬ 
ment of Nature with Scripture, reciting 
withall the chief difficulties, that may¬ 
be raifed about each Face of the Earths 
As to the /ri? Face, Scripture and Na^ 
ture agree in this, that all was cover’d 
with Water; but how it began to be 
thus, and when, and how long 'tis conti¬ 
nued fo, Nature is filent, Sripture is nou' 
But that that Fluid was Aqueous, at the 
dme when there were yet no Animals nor 
Plants, and that it cover’d all, i\\t Beds 
of the higher Hills, containing no hetc-^ 
rogeneous bodies at all,do evince; whofe 
Figure fpeaks that there was a Fluid,and 
the Matter, that there were no heteroge^ 
neous Bodies 5 but the likenefs of the - 
Matter and Figure in the Beds of divers 
and diftant Mountains f[iew,that Fluid to- 
have been Oniverfil. 
If any one fhall fay, that the hetero¬ 
geneous Solids contaiifd in thofe Beds 
have been in length of time'confum’d, Ic 
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