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A Nother supposed Effect of the Flood ,E 1 was a bringing up out of the Sea, andottering all the Earth over an innumerablein? tUc l e shells and Shell-fish; there be-j 0 ° of these stiell-like Bodies, not only onGrounds and Hillocks, but upon thet .§hest Mountains, the Appennitte and AlpsCa solves. A supposed Effect, I fay, be-^ e it is not yet agreed among the Learn-ps Whether these Bodies, formerly called^ r> fied Shells, but now a-days passing by* la m e of formed Stones, be original Pro-l he C!° ns ob Nature, formed in imitation ofshells of Fishes ; or the real Shells them-to r e ' 9 ’ e ^^ ier remaining still entire and un-ru Pt, or petrified and turned into Stone,

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