\ Consequences of the Deluge.

ground Channels and Passages: I beliesthat wherever one Ihall dig as deep as th-ieve! of the Sea, he shall seldom sail of vv*!ter; the water making its way through Ssfland Gravel and Stones. In like manner as*Mis observed of the River Seine, that in Flow'stimes all the neighbouring Wells and Celh r *are filled with water, and when the Riv^decreases and finks again, those waters a^of the Wells and Cellars diminish, and bygrees fall back into the River, so that th^are scarce any Wells or Fountains in th cPlains near the River, but their waters keepthe level of the Rivers, rising and falli^with it. ,

But this inferiour constant Circulationafl®perpetual motion of water, seems to meyet sufficiently proved and made out.I thiflfthat the Patrons and Abbettors of this Op*'nion, have not satisfactorily demonstrated»how it is, or can be performed. To vvb^is offered concerning the Center of Gravft/,being nearer to our Continent,, by reason ^the Preponderancy of the Earth, and jWaters lying as it were on an heap in the ithcr Hemisphere, I answer, i. That in tWpresent terraqueous Globe, the New W'orttwhich lyes between the two great Seas,almost opposite to our Continent, dothsome measure counterpoise the Old,and taK