Consequences of the Deluge.

To the second, Why might not the I3ofl cSof Whales, Sea-horses , all Iquamose Fish eS>the great shells of the Buccina , Murkes , Coscha Generis, and Solenes i and almost all ^crustaceous kind, as Crabs and LohJters>as well have been brought up and lefthind by the Flood, and afterward petrifiesas any of the testaceous kind ? l answer, 0the great Buccina, Murkes and Concha Vt nt 'ru , there are very few or none found in oj> sSeas: It may be there are of them inMountains and Quarries of the Indies , vv'^any Man so curious as to starch them oul'Though it’s likely but few, because bei^great things, caste to be seen, and that p art:of the World having been fully peopled se^after the Flood, their beauty might inv‘ t6the Inhabitants to search them out, and g J 'ther them up. But secondly , Those oth^kinds may possibly be less durable,andapt to be wrought upon, to moulder, dec^’and be dissolved in time by the WeatherRains and Moisture of the Earth, ornot io susceptive of petrifying Juices. .

The Thn»d Argument is already answer^in the precedent Discourse.

To the Fourth Argument as to what cesccrns the Selenites, Astroites and Belemtidwe have answered already. That the Spfcies of Brontia cannot be the petrified Sh e * j