x Consequences of the Deluge.

of the great Deep. By the great Deep{nt\t s j /place, I supposc,is to be understood the Sub* rterraneous Waters, which do and must ne* acestarily communicate with the Sea. Fo* [we fee that the Caspian and some other Seas, jreceive into themselves many great stivers, vand yet have no visible Outlets : and there- jfore by Subterraneous stallages, must needs }discharge their Waters into the Abyss o* 2Waters under the Earth, and by its intervest' ^tion into the Ocean again. ^

That the Mediterranean Sea doth not (3 s [

I sometimes thought) communicate with the (Ocean by any subterraneous Passages, not jthereby impart any Water to it, or receive gany from it, may be demonstrated, fro# Jthat the Superficies of it is lower than th 6 cSuperficies of the Ocean, as appears from tthe Waters running in at the Streights of tGibraltar ; for if there were any such Com- ,munications, the Water keeping its Level,the Mediterranean , being the lowest, must ’ ,by those stallages receive Waters from th e |Ocean ; and not the Ocean , which is (as v>' c j |have proved) the highest, from the Medi' j ,terranean. But that it doth not receive 3-ny by Subterraneous stallages is most likely, ,because it receives so much above Ground- ,Hence it necessarily follows, that the Medi' (terranean spends more in Vapour than it t e *

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