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forth any Vegetables for their sustenance; nCl 'ther if it could, would they be able to beatthe extremity of the Cold, which must n ee ® Sbe more rigorous, and that perpetually, tb al1it is now under'the Poles in Winter tirtj e 'But this accident, tho’ it would indeed exti 11 'guisti all Life, yet being quite contrary to 3Dissolution by Fire, of which the Apow espeaks, I shall pass it over without furth erconsideration, and proceed to a Third,

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The Third possible Cause of the World’s & 1 ',struttion , The Eruption of the Cent^Fire.

III . m g H E Possibility of the Eruption ^I the Central Fire, if any such thc {Sbe, inclosed in the Earth. It is the Iff'thefis of Monsieur des Cartes , that the Eaf tl1was originally a Star, or great Globe oflike the Sun, or one of the Fixt Stars,ate in the Center of a Vortex continuallywhirling round with it. That by degrees 1was covered over, or incrustated with Macu’^arising on its Surface, like die Scum ol> 3boyling Pot, which still increasing and g*°Ting thicker and thicker, the Star losing ^