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Consequences of the Deluge.

its passage, and forcing it to take Circuits,till it got above the fridges .-and Tops ofthem. . ; . . • i

As to this Argumentation and Inferencethe cafe is the lame, if we hold that the Wa*ter circulates through the Veins ol the Earth-For supposing the Rivers pour forth half a AOcean daily, and granting that in times ofFloods their streams are but double of. theirusual Currents (though I vcrjly believe theyare more than quadruple) and that the effu-sions of the Fountains be in like measure aug-mented, it will follow that the daily dis-charge of the Rivers will amount to twoOceans. Now at the; tiiijc of the "generalDeluge both these Causes -concurred.. Forthere being a constant Rain of forty days,there must on that account be a continualFlood, and the Fountains - of the great Deepbeing broken up, they must in all likely-hood afford as much. Water as the Rain:which whether n would not suffice in fortynatural days to produce a Flood as big asthat of Noah, notwithstanding the continualdescent and going off of the Waters, I pro-pose to the consideration, of the ingenious-Especially if we allows as is not unrealonableto fuppofe, that. the Divine (Providencemight at first cause a contrary Wind to stopand inhibit the descent of the Waters, as af-‘ terwards

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