Consequences of the Deluge.

As to the great Ocean, I do not believethat it evaporates lo much as th zMediterr*'nean ; both i. Because the whole Meditd’ranean , excepting the Euxine, lies in aClimate , and a great part of it as it wetfin a Valley, Ridges of high Mountains, At'las on one fide, and the Alps and Apennitf j&c. on the other running along it. A^2 .. Because the Surface ok the whole Ocenfbears a greater proportion to the Watersreceives from the Rivers of at least this Co* 1 'tinent, than that of the Mediterranean do^to its. And therefore I think also that M r 'Halley exceeds in his Estimate of theof the Superficies of the Sea-water. I cat 1 'not perswade my self, that were it all cotf'mixt, I mean the hotter part with the cooksall the Surface over to such a thickness, J{would equal the heat of our Air in the hottedtime of Summer. But 1 leave that to fu s 'ther Trial and Enquiry.

Here give me leave to suggest,that we $not to think, that all the Vapours that sePply our Rains and pews proceed fromSea,- no, a great part of them , viz. all th^’when condensed, waters the Earth,and ser vC j-for the Nutrition of Plants and Animals, (Inot the same individual Water, at leastmuch) was exhaled out of the Earth befo^’and returned again in Showers and Dews 11 P