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4 >nie to pass in many Ages, I might fay, inof Ages: Nay , some think, that thosea * Ridges and Chains of Mountains, whicha n through the middle of the Continents,re by reason of their great height, weightn d solidity, too great a Morsel ever to beev oured by the Jaws of the Sea. But whe-J er they be or not, I need not dispute,Apugh 1 incline to the Negative , becauseis not the dissolution the Apostle hereP^aks of, which must be by Fire.

But I must not here dissemble an Objecsti-^ s see may be made, and that is, That thejPersicieso't the Earth is so far from being^pressed , that se is continually elevated,pt in ancient Buildings, we see the Earthj^ifed high above the foot of them. So thefntheon at Rome, which was at first ascen-

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, up to by many [ eight ] Steps, is nowAscended down to by as many. The Basis^ whole Pedestal of Trajan's Pillar thereburied in the Earth.

Dr. Tancred Robinson in the year 1683.* strv'd in some places,the Walls of old Rome,0 lye Thirty and Forty Foot under Ground ;° that he thinks the greater part of thestains of that famous Ancient City is stillf r ied , and undiscovered; the prodigiousf ops of Ruins and Ruhhist) inclosed ivithin;e Vineyards and Gardens leing not half

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