Consequences of the Deluge.

^, n ik- So that we receive no more fromE Sea, than what the Rivers carry back ,sf Pour into it again. But supposing Mr.0 a & e ys Hypotheses to be good, and that thec £an doth evaporate, and cast off to the drys T * S °*' an I ,ic h thickness daily , and this.^ftces for the Supply of all the Rivers,-how^tolerably extravagant must their Hypotke-s be,who suppose the Rivers Of all the World^°gethcr to yield half an Ocean of water% ? Though I must confess my self to be^ a loss as to those vast Rivers of Americar ninety Miles broad ; for if they sliouldwith any thing a swift Current, it is in-^ e d inestimable what a quantity of water[hey may pour forth. All therefore that[have to say of them is, That we want ajsee History and Account of their Phcenomenar °na their Fountains to their Out lets.

&ut in contradiction to what I have saidOncerningthe water keeping its level , andowing in only at the Straits mouth, I un*[* Er stand that it is the concurrent and unani-mous Vote and Suffrage ol Mariners, Voy-gors and Philosophers,that there is an under-went at the Straits ot Gibraltar, the 7hra-Bosphorus, and the Baltick Sound. Par-^ularly M. Marfilly affirms, That the low-" Water in the Channel of the ThtacianNorthward into theG Euxinc

vj>horus is driven