I )2 Consequences of the Deluge.

it. The Beds of Sand interceding betweenthese Rows of Shells were a yard thick ofmore. These Shells were all distinct or st'parate one from another, and not stuck inany one stone, or cemented together,to thatthey might be singly and separately viewedand handled with ones Hands. The Causewhere; f was their being lodged in a pureSand not intermixt with any Mud or Clay ,which kept the Shells entire for many Ages.Yet were all these Shells, by reason of thelength of time they had lain there, easilyresoluble into a purely white Calx or Alh-Fabius Columna also observes, that in thetophaceous Hills and Clists about Andria inApulia, there are found various sorts of Sea*Hulls, both broken and whole, uncorrupband that have undergone no change. AndOvid in Met am. lib. iy.

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l am also informed by my learned and wot'thy Friend Dr. Tancred Robinson , That Sig*nior Settali (hewed him in his Museum atMilan , many Turbens, Echini , Pearl J]>ells ,(one with a Pearl in it) Peilunculi , and st'veral other perfect shells , which he himselffound in the Mountains near Genoa; and ahter wards my said Friend took notice also ot