Consequences of the Deluge.

0r Ashes: but those vyhich are of a topha-^e°us or stony substance, go not first into a° a h but burn immediately into a Calx orl r tle > unless by tome vitreous or metallickl^'Xture they be melted. Now these Teetliein g burnt, pass presently into a Coal, buthe tophoussubstance adhering to them, dothn °t so - whence it is clear, that they are ofa h osteous, and no stony nature.

. Next he thews, That they do not shootthis form after the manner of Salts or^ r ystal, which I shall have occasion furthertreat of by and by. Then he proves itr °m the Axiom, Nat ar a nihil facts frujlra;feature makes nothing in vain. But theseTeeth, were they thus formed in the Earth,tyould be in vain ; for they could not havean y use os Teeth ; as neither the Bones ofsupporting any Animal. Nature never madeTeeth without a Jaw, nor shells without anAnimal Inhabitant, nor single Bones, no notln their own proper Element, much less ina fttange one. Further he argues, from thedifficulty or impossibility of the Generation^Glojfopetrœ in such places; because,amongT °phi and Stones in those dry places , there^°uld not be found matter fit for to makeof. But granting that, he queriesWhether they were generated at first all of asudden, or nrew by little and little from