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__the Ueiwic Of Noah was truly “Luivc \

Jal, and laid the whole Earth under "Watei, y ■ ,

Bering all, even the highest Mountains, qufound the Globe. u^ter

l. That at the time of the Deluge, ththe Ocean was fust brought out on the >and that it was immediately tucceedcd y 3*e Abyss, which was also brought out onSurface of the Globe. * an d

3- That upon the Disruption of the S r ,the Elevation of some, and the De^sswn ot o.thers oi them, which followed after that Ddtupnn towards the end ot the Deluge ; T 1 ^

Water feU back again into the deprest andPiruoi the Earththe / "

r f lwu ‘ or Channel ot the Ocean ; t ^e

'he Viffures whereby this communicates

°«an m the Abyss, which it filled till it came^Equilibrium with the Ocean. •

4- That the Deluge commenced «

Ww the Water coming forth upon the Ea^ Month which we call May.s * That the Deluge did n.

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the included Water of the Abyss mult illue, andto help to occasion the Deluge ,

He suppoles further, That this Comet in itsDescent towards the Sun, palled so dose by theBody of the Earth as co involve it lelf in its At-mosphere and Tail for a good while, and conse-quently, left a vast quantity of Vapours, both ex-panded and condensed on its Surface; a greatpart of which being very much rarity'd after theirfirst fall would be loon drawn up into the Air a-gain, and afterwards fall down on the Earth invast and prodigiously violent Rains ; which wasthe cause of the Forty Days Rain mentioned byA 4 o{es in his History of the Deluge. But the othergreat Rain, which with this, lasted for 150 Davs,was caused she laith) by the Earth’s coming a se-cond time into the Tail of the Comet: And fromthis double coming of the Earth into first the At-mosphere and then the Tail of the Comet, hesupposes half the Water of the Deluge to be de-rived, as the other half came from the Abyss;whose Waters he supposed were continued to be'ugc did not happen from an ! brought out by the Pressure ot that Water which■' "" . — - ■ 'came from the Comet, which he thinks would

1 into Lakes and other Cavities into

m »ny thj n „ v '° ncour se of Natural Causes, but thatPossibly 'y ere then done, which never could1 ^fernstt^ , n ^one without the Assistance oft!i t *' ls Ma,, better ; that the laid Power acted‘sisdam - j s Wlt h Design, and with the highest

/ n > and as the System of Nature was

^L^tither i-jfe sported and established, a De-he L e , , nor could happen naturally.

1 . hein a ,- n . e ** and Ingenious Mr. Winston, nowr, ^e, 1. ” r ofessor in the University of Cam-

intse e j ls Nrw Theory of the Earth , supposes,j Ur P‘ifinp r m . a kes it very probable from several(i etlCe bettyp°,' lnc ^ enccs (as the exact Correfpon-[78 as he a c ? 'he Solar and Lunar Year, suppo-Orbit kpf ’ that the Earth moved in a Circu-°f Oto the Deluge ; that the Earth at the

Darr IS inrl ^ e J u i e Ihould be in its Perihelion,q 1 ng by ,‘he natural effect of a Comet’s

. rc hU rt0 ^hat time, and drawing it from a

l °°« '"as o? ^hiptical Orbit; and allo that then, e T’aall v hetl in such a place of its Orbit as tot , ct kissedhv^Eed by the Earth when rheCo-ri; at a Cohay, he renders it very probable,f>>ck descending in the Plane of the E-

harch r> ar ^ s lts Perihelion palled just before.^hfequenp" ‘he first Day of the Deluge: The*Co m * which he thinks would be, Thati’ e a *** it came below the Moon wouldiW he fetal 1 'v! 0US> Vast « and strong Tide, bothse,. 1S Were : , s > which according to his Hypo-

in ,k n ° Rr ea , sN e Antidiluvian Earth ffor he al-ofrk Abyse Ocean there, as in ours) and alsoetir C ^ ar fe • Tu^' c ^ was "tider the upper Crusttm. rea fe all se A . Tide he supposes would rife andhei k^ s ‘he if t ", ne oi the approach of the Cometf Sfe.When ,u rt ; a "d would be at its greatestbv I fe B v »k C°met was at its least distanceihAk Attract; to ‘ ce of which Tide, and alsose rxfe'fs m u «.° n °f the Comet he judges, thatthanFigure PUt k°" an Flhptick or rather exact-

the r. 8urc > Whole 1. ■_u

press downwards with a mighty force, and endea-vour to sink the outward Crust of the Earth downinto the Abyss, and this would force the Subterra-nean Water up through the Clefts and Fiiluresbefore made in the Crust by the violence of theTide abovementioned. And at last, to removethis vast Orb of Waters again, he supposes amighty Wind to have arisen ; which dried upsome, and forced the rest down into the Abyssthrough the discs or Fissures by which it cameup in a good measure before; only that a goodQuantity indeed retired into the Alveus of thegreat Ocean (now first made) and into leller Seasand Lakes, &c. From the Calculation of thisComet he concludes, That the Deluge began onthe 17th Day of the Second Month from the Au-tumnal Equinox (or on the 17th Day of Novemberin the Julian Stile extended backward ) in the1365th Tear of the Julian Period, and in the1349th Year before the Christian Æ.ra. He as-serts also, That the Waters of the Deluge werestill, calm, and free from Commotions, Storms,Winds, and Tempests of all forts, during thewhole time the Ark was afloat upon them: Thatat th t Deluge the Earth was tit st divided into twovast Continents almost opposite to one another andseparated by a vast Ocean, as it is now ; and also,that lince the Deluge there neither hath nor willbe any great or general Changes in the State of theWorld till a Period be put to the present Courseof Nature. How he makes out these things theReader will find in his New Theory ofthe Earth ;which is very well worth the careful perusal ofevery Mathematical and Philosophical Reader.

DEMAINE or Demesne, Dominicum , is a Frenchword, otherwise written Domain^, and signifieth,as Hotoman faith, Patrimonium Domini, In verbisfcttdalibus, vtrbo Dominicum, where by divers Au-thorities he proverb those Lands to be Dominicum ,which a Man holdeth originally of himself, and

of c l fonder Surface being much larger | which a Man noidetn originally ot inmieir, anda ccom 5 ar ‘h in r ,L pt r ical one, the outward Crust | those to be feodum which he holdeth of a Superior

'*CCon,_ "‘'■U lnri.A.k "“‘wiiu uiuh.

Co uld Itl0< fete ; t j- |? enc on the Abyss must needs Lord.l 0 feecj n0C Possibly^ t0 t ^ at Figure; which yet it In England, no common Person hath any De-ic muft t0 £ et lier it held solid and con- maines simply understood, for all dependent! ei-

ken J?° f neceffi*”! ^retore he concludes, that . X

fe e violenr ( ^ Extended and at last bro-ri<j Q)'r a "d conseemp 6 i° f tht ‘ (aid Tide and At-mad e Fare innumerable Gaps

” through it, out of which

ther mediately or immediately of the Crown 7 forwhen a Man in pleading would lignifie his Landto be his own, he faith, That he is, or was leiz’dthereof in his Demaine, as of Fee, Lit. lib. 1. c. t,.whereby hs meaneth, that although h/s Land beF f to