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To turn up all relating to the Divifa 11 §and Disposition of the Water and Earth 16 b<

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1. Ifay, the Water being the lighter El? ^ment doth naturally occupy the upper place, ^and stand above the Earth, and so at first ll ^did. But now we sce it doth not so ; gEarth being contrary to its nature forcibly ~elevated above it; being (as the Fsalnt '4 ^phraseth it) founded above the Seas, and e ' ( nstablilhed above the Floods : and this becau^ §it was best it should be so, as I so all clearly ^prove and deduce in particulars in another «Discourse. ^

z. The dry Land is not elevated only ^upon one side of the Globe ; for then hadit had high Mountains in the middle of it, ^with such vast empty Cavities within ,must be equal to the whole Bulk raised up, ythe Center of Magnitude must needs havebeen considerably distant from the Centerof Gravity: which would have caused avery great and inconvenient inequality inthe Motion of the parts of the Earth : butthe Continents and Islands are so equally di-fperst all the Globe over as to cqunterbaklance one another, so that the Centers ofMagnitude and Gravity concur in one.

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