Consequences of the Deluge.

us the History of these Bodies, or his Qbsef;various concerning them $ of which thesefollowing are two, i.That in Argilla , whichsome englise Potters Earth , and we may ren-der a Fat Clay, lie had taken notice thatthere were plenty of them on the Supersetof the Earth, but within the Earth but a

r. That in the (ame Argilla the deeper y^fdeseend downward, the more tender th<» eBodies are, lo that some of them at any th e •least touch fall into Powder : and they alsothat were on the Superficies , almost all sllthem were without much ado reduced into awhite Powder.Now (faith he) feeing in sec! 1kind of Earth , by how much deeper tholeBodies lye, by to much the softer they are >and do lest bear the touch, the Earth is sefar from producing them, that it doth rfl’ther destroy them. Neither is there artfreason to think, that they are therefore sols'cr, because they are not yet arrived at theseperfection, or come to maturity : for thosethings that are soft upon that account , whilethey are in generating, have their parts usli'ted to one another as if. were by a kind of Gse e(as is seen in the tender seels of Pine-Nu^and Almonds) but these Bodies, being depri-ved and destitute of all Glue,easily mouse erto Dust. Nor is it any Objection against o^rOpinion, that on the surface of the Earse

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