i Consequences of the Deluge.

j Reives from the Rivers; which is Mr. Hal-' e f$ Conclusion ; though in some of his Pre-stos or Hypotheses he is, I think, mistaken,as i. In that he numbers the Tyler amongsthis nine great Rivers, each of which may| yield ten times as much Water as the Thames;

! Whereas 1 question whether that yields once0 Much ; and whereas he pastes by all there st of the Rivers as smaller than it; therear e two that I have seen in Italy it self,^hereof the one, viz. the Ar mis, on whichFlorence and Pisa stand, seemed to me not^feriour in bigness to the Tiler; and the^her, viz. the Athefis on which Veronastands,I could not guess to be less than twicebig. 2. In that he thinks himself too li-teral in allowing these nine Rivers to carry<Wn each of them ten times so r much Wa-as the Thames doth. Whereas one ofhole nine. and that none of the biggest nei-stler, viz. the River Po, if Ricciolus his Hy-P°theses and Calculations be good , affords^ore Water in an hour, than Mr. Ha Hey sup-; P°les the Thames to do in a day ; the hour-| v Effusions of the Po being rated at eigh-, t(:c n millions of Cubical Paces by Ricciolus;j Whereas the daily ones of the Thames areimputed to be no more than twenty fivepillions three hundred forty four thousandCubical yards of Water by Mr .Haliey but