Consequences of the Deluge*

he) gives us an obscure intimation of the jDeluge, in his Timæm, bringing in a certainEgyptian Priest, who related to Solon out ot .the Sacred Books of the Egyptians, that before jthe particular Deluges known and celebrated Iby the Grecians , there was of old an ex-ceeding great Inundation of Waters, and de-vastation of the Earth; which seems to be 1no other than Noah's Flood.

Plutarch in his Book De Solertia Animtx•Hum tells us, That those who have written ;of Deucalion's Flood, report, that there wasa Dove sent out of the Ark by Deucalion ,which returning again into the Ark, was asign of the continuance of the Flood , butflying quite away, and not returning any 'more, was a sign of Serenity , and that theEarth was drained.

Indeed Ovid and other Mythologists !make DeucalionsYlood to have been univer- isal: and it’s clear, by the Description Ovidgives of it , that he meant the general De ;luge in the days of Noah. And that by DeH'cation, the Ancients together with Ovid, UN"

’• derstood Noah ; Kircher in his * Area No$doth well make out. First , For that th e 'Poet Apoflonius makes him the Son of Promt' jthem in bis third Book,