Consequences of the Deluge*

any one of those Species of Shells found atAdderton in Torkjhire , Wansford-BridgeNorthamptonshire , and about Gunthorf andBeavoir Gallic, &c. any where else, but mtheir respective Quarries. What can we la/to this ? Why it is possible that many folksof Shell-siih may be lodged so deep in theSeas, or on Rocks so remote from the ssiorsr,that they may never come to our light.

Thirdly, It follows also, That there havebeen Shell-fish in these cold Northern Settof greater bulk and dimensions, than anynow living, 1 do not lay in these, but in tb emost Southernly and Indian ; v'u.Corma Awtnonis of two foot diameter, and of thicknessanswerable.

To this I answer, That there are no p e *trisied Shells that do in bigness much exceedthose of the natural Shell-ssih sound in oilsSeas, lave the Gornua Ammonis only, whichI suspect to have never been, nor had anyrelation to any shells of Fillies: ortoinselate or resemble them,at least some 'of. them-Against this Assertion :it may be objected,Tnat there are found in England may Petti*nites bigger than any Shell-fish of that kindwhich our Seas now afford. And that thf$ care no Nautili , or other testaceous Fi<b fiSwith us, comparable in bigness to that Ne**ri/wj-stone of twenty eight pound found by