I3<5 Consequences of the Deluge. ;

small to great,as Animals Teeth, whose foffU |they imitate, do. II the first be (aid, he de- |mands, Whether the Tophus , out of which ‘they were extracted, were generated befor eor aster the Teeth were perlected ? It it b esaid before, lieasks, Whether there were 3place in it of the figure and magnitude of th eTooth,or did the Tooth make it felt a place? iIf the Tophus wcr.e concrete before,and with' jout a cavity, the vegetative power of th c ,Stone now ui birth,could not by force mak 6 :it self a place in the hard and lolid Tophus } !or if it could and did, the Tophus must needs :

be rent. Against the production of theseBodies in a compact Earth or Stone , A r A-Steno argues thus ; Things that grow , eX'panding themselves leisurely or slowly, may ;indeed lift up great weights, and dilate the jchinks and veins of Stones, as we fee theRoots of Trees sometimes do ; but yet :while they do thus make room for them- ;selves, they cannot but be often hindred byiiic resistance of some hard obstacle they, imeet with, as it happens to the Roots ofPlants, which in hard Earth, being a thoU'sand ways writhen and compressed , recedefrom the figure, which otherwise in soft Landthey are wont to retain : whereas these Oo-dles, whereof we are now discoursing, areall like one another, whether they be dug