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of Armenia ? These conjectures are atleast consistent with the most probable no'tions of the primitive habitation of man,which I take to be near the sources of theGanges, (as Josephus expressly mentions)the Bourampooter and the Indus, fromwhich, as the temperature grew colder,mankind descended to the plains of, India.

This unparalleled revolution, Moses in'forms us, was introduced by a continualrain for forty days. By this the surface o!the earth must have been loosened to a con'siderable depth; its effects may even havebeen in many instances destructive ; thusin August, 1740, several eminences wereswept away, nay the whole mountain olLidsheare, in the province of Wermelandin Sweden, was rent asunder by a heav/fall of rain for only one nightl 27 Schwed-Abhand, 93. This loosening and openingos the earth was in many places, where themarine inundation stagnated, an useful ope -ration to the soil subsequently to-be formed,as by these means shells and other marineexuviæ were introduced into it which ren'dered it more fertile. By this rain also-the fait water was diluted, and its perni'

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