produ(^ion of tlie Hillocks out of the fe- 
dimeat of the Sea Oie weth; and that not 
only in Etruru. but in very many places 
remote enough from the Sea, whence the 
Waters fall towards the Midland Seaj 
yea in thofe places alfo, whence the wa» 
ters flow into the Ocean. How great 
that height of the Sea hath been, where 
Scripture determins it, Nature contra- 
dids it not 5 forafmuch as, i. There 
, are certain marks of the Sea extant in pla¬ 
ces, which are many hundred feet high a- 
hove the furface of the Sea. 2. It can¬ 
not be denied, that, as all the Solids of 
the Earth were in the beginning of things 
cover'd with an aqueous Fluid, fo they 
may have been cover'd with it again, in 
regard that the change of natural things 
is indeed continual, but there is no Na¬ 
tural Annihilation.But who hath fearch’d 
into the ftrudure of the Bowels of the 
Earth, fo as to dare to deny that there 
may be vaft fpaces, now filled with an 
Aqueous, at an other time with an Ae- 
rcai Fluid f* 3. Let it be uncertain,what 
ivas the depth of the Valleys in the be¬ 
ginning of the Deluge 5 but let reafon 
perfwade, that in the firlt Ages of the 
World 
