U Consequences of the Deluge]o\ved doU'n to Cat ana , above twenty Miles; h , ant > and advanced a considerable wayo the very Sea it telf.

jj fondly, The next thing I Ib all mentionhe extraordinary Floods caused by longa htinuing stiowers, or violent and tempe-rs storms and shots of rain.b most ancient and memorable of thisa|^' ls that of Veucalionpi which we have^eady dilcourled iuJltciendy. S. Hieromet |, le Life of Hilarion ( as I find him quo-ky Dr. Hakewill') ipeaks of a Flood andRelation alter the Death- of Jidian , inu ch Naves ad prærupta montium delatce^P'nderunt , the Ships being landed upon$ tops of the Mountains., there stuck.f r *Hch whether it proceeded from Rain , orQ 0r h an Irruption of the Sea , or from both^ a hses together, he doth not fay : but if itfc re literally true, and not hyptrbolicailytQ Sgerated, then may tome credit be givenv ^h a t,S<i£/# in his Commentaries upon 0-y, s Metamorphosis , reports , Ex Annalittmss Uy nentu con fiat Anno rq6o. in Alpihis in -pss a>n e jffe Navim cum anchoris in cuniculoif iuem met alia effpdiuntur : It appears byj e Monuments of History, that in tlie Yearin a Mine of the Alps was found aty.’P ^'ith its Anchors ; in confirmation oflat that Poet writes,

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