of the World.

ty>erficies of the whole Earth, which is nowr ° u gh and uneven by reason of Mountains?nd Valleys, and so only rudely SphæricaJ,daily from the very beginning of the/orId reducing to a perfect roundness , in0 Much that it will necessarily come to^ in a natural way, that it be one day o-^ r flown by the Sea, and rendred unliabit-

, First then, that we may clearly appre-, e od the Causes of this thing, we must lay

PWn as a Foundation from Holythe Terraqueous Globe was

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^ginning endued with a more perfect Sphe-ral Figure, that is, without any inequa-: lt ies of Mountains and Valleys: and thatlf Was wholly covered with the Sea, and soaltogether unfit for Terrestrial Animals to^liabit: but it was then rendred habitable,'men by the beck or command of its Crea-. 0r the greatest part of the Land was^tranfc, ate d from one place to another, whereuponj er e appeared the hollows of the Seas, thereJ le heights of the Mountains : And all thejmters which before covered the face ofjjje whole Earth receded, and flowing down■pled those depresied and hollow places ; andCongregation of Waters was called theHence some grave Authors doubt notl ° aflert, That the Mountains were made

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