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Consequences of the Deluge*

and bring the Center of Gravity nearer Wits own Superficies , and so raise the LaflPstill a great deal higher, and make a consederable distance between the Centers of Mag'nttude and of Gravity. In our Hypothefiof the equal dispersion of the Continent 5and Islands no such thing would happen: buteach Continent taking it with all its internalCaverns, whether lighter or heavier than it 5bulk in water; that is, whether the watt’sdid make its way into the Caverns thereof,or did not, (for in the first case it would beheavier, (in the second lighter) would haveits counterpoise on the opposite side; so thatthe Centers would still concur. The cafewould be the fame if the dry Land werediscovered, and the Mountains raised by theimmediate application of the Divine Power-2. The Sea being no where above a Germa#Mile deep ( for which we have good Au-thority ) in most places not half so much,taking then as a middle term half a Mile-Suppose it every where half a Mile deep ,( the Earth below the Sea, we have no rea-son to suppose of different Gravity ) whatproportion hath this half Miles thickness ofwater to the whole Terraqueous Globe,whoseSemidiameter is by the .account of Mathe-maticians Three thousand four hundred andforty Italian Miles. What little advantage

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