Consequences of the Deluge.

fcveral Beds of them himself, as he passed o-^ er Mount Cents , above fifty Leagues di-uant from the Sea ; he allures me tnat ma-n y °i tire great Stones about the BuildingsLondon are lull of (hells , and pieces ofjhem. Moreover , my fore-mentioned*' r iend Mr. Lloyd lent me perfect Escallopan d Sea-Urchin (hells, exactly resemblingl he like Sca-fliclls, both for figure, colour ,height and consistency ; which he himselfSphered up near Oxford. And hath latelyJ tr >t me word, That he found at a placecal-led Rungy wed-Hill in Surrey , at a VillageCa lled Medley, three Miles South ol Epjham ,at least Twenty Miles distant from the Seasome fossil Oysters, which by the confessioncf Dr. Lyfter himself, were indeed true Qy-jh*r-(hells not petrified nor much decayed:N ay, so like they were to Oysters newlytaken out of the Sea, that a certain Perlonh'eingof them, mistook them for such, andOpened one of them, expecting to find a If^ n g stlh therein. Now that Nature should0r m real (hells, without any defign of co-ding an Animal, is indeed so contrary to".at innate rrolepfis we have of the Prudence°l bJature, (that is, the Author of Nature)hat without doing some Violence to our.acuities, we can hardly prevail with oure * v t's to believe it: and gives great coun-

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