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CHAP. III.

Of the EffeSls of the Deluge .

j Come now to the Third Particular pro-t T Posed, that is, To Enquire concerningfid Consequents of the Deluge , What con-stable Effects it had upon tire Earth and

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th? ^ lad ^oubtlels very great, in changingSuperficies of the dry Land: In somej: ,a ces adding to the Sea ; in some takingj!?® tt; making Islands of Peninsula , andirnng Qthers to the Continent; altering theVVa c J? °i Rivers, throwing up fester Hills, andOj j ln g away others, &c. The most re-of K a ^ e Effects it’s likely were in the skirtst j the Continents because the Motion offius .ter was there most violent. Atham-0 Kjrcber * gives us a Map and Defcripti- * De Amof the World after the Flood, strewingat Changes were made therein by it, orc P°n occasion of it afterward, as he fansies or^Ojectures. But because I do not love toa u ble the Reader with uncertain Conje-res > I Ihall content my self to have laid

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