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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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enH a< ^idon to its Name, having beeti anci-a krnan Town or Camp: Chester feem-°§ to be nothing but Cafira.b ft is to-be-considers That weightyD i J , n § s do m time overcame the resistancean] ^tf^tion, unless it be a solid Rock;^link int© the ground.

Nayj the very loft Water, lying long up-c die bottoms of the Sea or Pools, dorh <6t , ^prefs and sadden them by its weight,the very Roads that are continually^enavitl, Morses and Carriages, are notnrm a n( j ^d : And in the Sea, the nearerfad] to the Low Water-Mark; still theanc ^ ^ rmer ‘ £ ‘ s - ar, d ids probable still,^‘further the sadder; which seems to ber^firmed by the strong fixing of Anchors.o *his firmness of the Sand , by the weightt j die incumbent Water, the People inhabi-tlelst the Sea are so sensible of, that I^ Ve seen them boldly ride through the, at Cr q. 0 j[j a Channel three Miles broad,fore the Tide was out, when in someit reacht to the Horses Belly. ] A^glance whereof, we have in Ponds,ftich being newly digg’d, the Water that^ ^ into them, sinks soon into the Earth,t j they become dry again, till after somee* 116 )' by often filling, the Earth becomesiolid, througli the weight of the Wa-X 4 ter,

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