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Three physico-theological discourses : concerning I. the primitive chaos and creation of the world. II. the general deluge, its causes and effects. III. the dissolution of the world, and future conflagration ... / by John Ray
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Consequences of the Deluge.

of Marcasites, and the Crystals of Salts lflChymical Operations, and infinite other st 0 'dies coagulating and crystallizing in ahave Figures much more ordinate than ^thole of Scallops, Cockles , and other Bivah eS)and also Verhvinckles and Turbem ? yet v ' efee in these simple Bodies sometimes the Eof a solid Angle cut off; sometimes man)' 0 ''them without any order sticking one to a° 0 'ther; sometimes their Planes differing ame 11 ^themselves in magnitude and situation ;many other ways receding from their use 3Figure ? Which being so, how much greatsand more notable detects must there nc^have been in Bodies that have a far m os ,compound Figure, such as are thole whi siimitate the forms of Animals, if they w efin like manner generated ? Seeing t heresyin these Bodies, which are very much cose'pounded, these defects do seldom occse’which in thole other most simple Bodies severy frequent; feeing there are no deseyobserved in these compound Bodies, the ^whereto are not in like manner lien in 11Bodies of Animals. And seeing that whse e (soever they are found they are exceed 111 ?like both among themselves, and to the pse.jof Animals, it is very unlikely theyshoot into those Figures alter the mannasSalts ; but on the contrary, highly