Consequences of the Deluge.

I have read of some Philosophers, who i-a gmed the Earth to be a great Animasandat the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea wastls r ^P* r ation of it. And now mcthinks, if,s doctrine be true, we have a further Ar-o^tnent to confirm their Opinion: For this*y r Petual Motion of the water answers ve-/ Well to the Circulation of the Blood jthet'ater moving faster in proportion to itsulk through the Veins of this round ‘Animal,j. , n the Blood doth through those of otherWing Creatures. To which we may addUr ther, that to maintain this constant Cir-culation there is also probably about the Cen-ser of the Earth a perpetual Fire, answeringto the Biolychnium in the heart: but if not^hout the Center, yet certainly in profoundCaverns, and even under the very bottomsp the Seas; to which some, and no meanhilosophers, have attributed the Ebbing andsewing of its waters.

, Let us then suppose that the Rivers do'seily carry down to the Sea half an Ocean°f Water, and that the Rain supplies all that,^ °Ur Opinion is, and see what we can infer"seM thence : I think it will be granted thatOrdinarily (communibus amis) the Rain thata us in a whole year amounts not to aboveOtic quarters continual Rain. Now if thiseffusion of half an Ocean,

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