Consequences of the Deluge .

^ me > they must by reason of their Conflu-g nce > be raised as high above the Sea too.0 rL} v 'hat is now become of this huge Maisjy. ^ a ters, equal to six or seven Oceans ?a y not the Stoicks here set in, and help usut ata dead lift? The Sun and Moon,fayb ,le y> might possibly sup it all up. Yea,Ut We cannot allow time enough lor that;°r according to the moderate Draughts theya *e now a-days, one Ocean would sufficeo Water them many Ages, unless perchancele ° they were young and hot, they mightued more drink. But to be serious, I have0 vvay to answer this Objection, but by de-ling , that there are any Beds or greatjUimps and Masses of these formed Stones top sound near the Tops of the Alps ,or other*'gh Mountains; but yet there might beume particular Shells scattered there by thej^ueral Deluge. Unless we should fay, thatl0 se Mountains w’here such Shells are found^ure anciently depressed places, and after-^ ar d raised up by Earthquakes. Anotherp ln g there is as difficult to give an account°|? us of the Shells getting up to the TopsMountains : that is, of those several Beds® r Floors of Earth and Sand, Vc. one abovepother,which are observed in broken Moun*? lns - F or one cannot easily imagine,whence"Use Floors or Beds in the manner of strata

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