at all, when we dig and fearch into thofe Earths. Or if any thing of them do appear, 'tis only the Ruins, or fome flight Remains of them; there being very rarely found any Trunks of Trees, in thefe laxer Earths, that are intire, or tolerably firm and found. To conclude, from feveral of the aforefaid Circumftances I fhall evince that thefe Trees could never poffibly have been repofed thus by any other Means than the Deluge": neither by Men: nor by Inundations: *Confer nor by Deterrations *: nor by violent and impetuous Winds: nor by Earthquakes; which are the feveral Ways whereby Learned Men have thought they were thus bury'd.

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PART III. Concerning the Fluids of the Globe.

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SECT. I.

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Of the great Abyss. Of the Ocean. Concerning the Origin of Springs, and Rivers. Of Vapours, and of Rain.

AVING thus done with H the more bulky and corpulent Parts of the Globe, the

next Place in courfe is due unto Metalls and Minerals, which are the only remaining Part of the Terreftrial Matter of it not yet treated of. And accordingly I fhould

now

at all, when we dig and fearch into thofe Earths. Or if any thing of them do appear, 'tis only the Ruins, or fome flight Remains of them there being very rarely found any Trunks of Trees, in thefe laxer Earths, that are intire, or tolerably firm and found. To conclude, from feveral of the aforefaid Circumftances I fhall evince that thefe Trees could never poffibly have been repofed thus by any other Means than the Deluge: neither by Men: nor by Inundations: *Confer nor by Deterrations *: nor by violent and impetuous Winds: nor by Earthquakes, which are the feveral Ways whereby Learned Men have thought they were thus bury'd.

Part 5. Confect. 2.

PART

PART III. Concerning the Fluids of

the Globe.

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SECT. I

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Of the great Abyss. Of the Ocean. Concerning the Origin of Springs, and Rivers. Of Vapours, and of Rain.

AVING thus done with

H the more bulky and corpulent Parts of the Globe, the

next Place in courfe is due unto Metalls and Minerals, which are the only remaining Part of the Terreftrial Matter of it not yet treated of. And accordingly I fhould

now

2.

3.

which Mofes calls the Great Deep, or Abyss: the ancient Gentil Writers, Erebus, and Tartarus.

That the Water of this Orb communicates with that of the Ocean, by means of certain Hiatus's or Chafmes paffing betwixt it and the Bottom of the Ocean. That they have the fame common Center, around 'which the Water of both of them is compiled and arranged; but in fuch Manner, that the ordinary Surface of this.Orb is not level with that of the Ocean, nor at fo great a Distance from the Center as that is, it being for the most part restrained and depreffed by the Strata of Earth lying upon it. But wherever thofe Strata are broken, or fo lax and porofe that Water can pervade them, there the Water of the faid Orb does afcend: fills up all the Fiffures whereinto it can get Admiffion or Enterance and faturates all the Interftices and Pores of the Earth, Stone, or other Matter, all round the Globe, quite up to the Level of the Surface of the Ocean.

That there is a perpetual and inceffant Circulation of Water in the

Atmosphere;