Consequences of the Deluge.

0a ^ ut though I cannot imagine or think up-a a ny natural means' to prevent and put a^ P to this effect, yet do I not deny thatc ,? re may be some ; and I am the rather in-no ^hle so to think, because the World dothln any degree, proceed so last towardst r l;5 Period , as the force and agency of all3s t ^ au ^ es together seem to require. For,c 1 said before, the Oracle predicting theC rying on the shore of Cilicia as tar as\^ rvs by the Earth and Mud that the turbidAi, er Pyramus should bring down, and letk• Iri the interjacent strait, is ib far fromk n g filled up, that there hath not any con-stable progress been made towards it, so^ a s I have heard or read , in these aoook ars - And we find by experience, that the0 ^gcr the World lasts, the fewer Concusti-a °d Mutations are made in the upper ort jP e rficial Region of the Earth ; the partsJ[ c of seeming to tend to a greater quiet.settlement.

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t|^ flarids, and the straitning of it about\n Outlets of Rivers; and the Earth ittj hes Rom the Ihores subsiding, and elcva-H S the bottom,seems not to be railed higher,r spread further, or bear any greater pro-Q 3 portion

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