GtofcqHWtcef of the Deluge.

i That die Changes that have hitherton ^^ n cd iji the Earth by Earthquakes havebeen to considerable as to threaten a distu don of the present System of the Ter-c J] Ucous Globe, should there be a like fuc-hon of them to Eternity. Unless we willk Ce pt that uriparall’d universal one, whichs PPcncd in the days of Valent'tnian the first(L '^‘Ph we have already mention’d) by whichWh 0 i e known World, both Land and^and its like the then unknown too, werea p ent ly shaken; which might seem to ben Delude to the future Conflagration ora suction of the whole by such a confusiono dashing in pieces of all the parts of it0 j? e against another, as the Stoicks speak

^ Of the Effects of burning Mountains or^ I have already said something, andIn i afterwards, have occasion to fay more.^ "ties, i. They cast forth out of theirQj^ths, and scatter all over the Country ,Retimes to a very great distance, abun*gs Sand and Ames. Dion Caffius re-j~ k rts > that in that noted deflagration of Ve-x f lks in the time of Titus the Emperour,t e j re Was so much Cinders and A sees vomi-e out of its flaming Tunnel, and with thatjT r y and Violence, that they were trans-rt ed over Sea into Africa, Syria and Egypt;

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