Consequences of the Deluge.

turc, in imitation of the Shells and Bones otFillies.

Against the former Opinion we have beenpleading tor, it may be objected, That the^tollow luch strange and seemingly absu 1-1 'Consequences from it, as tore hardly reed 1 ’cileable to Scripture, or indeed to lober steS’ion: as,

First, That the Waters must have coversthe whole Earth, even the highest Moutf’tains, and that for a long time, there beifl$found of these Shells, not only in the moymountainous parts of our Country, but 1,1the highest Mountains in Europe, the AppWnine and Alps themselves, and that not 01AIscattered, but amassed in great lumps, ati“lying thick in Beds of Sand , as we have b°'sore shewn. Now this could hardly be tli*jeffect of a short Deluge , which if itcarried any Shcll-sish so high, would m wlikelyhood have scattered them very tin 11 'These Beds and Lumps of them necessarilyinferring, that they must have bred ther e >which is a work of time.

Now the general Deluge lasted inwhole, but ten Months; and it’s not likelythe Tops of the Mountains were covershalf that time. Neither is it less repugnsto Reason than Scripture ; for if the Watc*' sstood so high above the Earth, for so long a

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