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Three physico-theological discourses : concerning I. the primitive chaos and creation of the world. II. the general deluge, its causes and effects. III. the dissolution of the world, and future conflagration ... / by John Ray
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^ great {stone, the biggest remaining piece offa ^ ro ^ en Rock, made such a Trench in its de-j, nt ' M the small Mountain rills commonlyq n in ; and when it came down to the plainff kn d,it continued its pajfage through a smallf f a fiow, and a considerable Brook, and lodg-t d e If on the other fide it. From hence I

sf Jer that all the other vafi Stones that lyet f Hr mountainous Valleys, have by such Ac-as thu fallen down. Vnlest perhapsq do better to refer the greatest part ofto the ^Universal Deluge. For confider-f & there are some thousands of them in theseValleys \of Lhanberys and Nant-Phran-0r G whereof (for what I can learn ) there^ but two or three that have faliek in thef e *»$ry of any Man now living ; in the or din a-l^ourje of Nature ire shall be compelled toon, ffa re j£ mm y thousands of years morest* 1 the Age of the World. So tar Mr.ll °yd.

6 this Mst Particular, and for a furthertL° Unt of it,may be added, That (ometimcsre happen strange and violent Storms andu^rieanes, wherein the Rain is driven with^ force upon the tops and fides of the^?^ntains by furious rind tempestuoust lf ids, as to do more execution upon them^ breaking in pieces, tearing and throwingRocks and Stones, in a few days, then

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