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PREFACE. 
fraall volume contains defcrip- 
tions, and Figures of fome, of the 
many remains of animals lodged in 
flone; and found in almofl every part 
of the environs of Bath, in fo great 
abundance that eveiy ploughed field 
produces a plenteous harvefl; of them. 
They are in my opinion undoubted 
natural proofs of the univerfal deluge, 
which is circumftantially defcribed in 
the 6 , 7 , and 8 , chapters of GeneCs ; 
nor does England alone polTefs thefe 
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