the Water«?, but upon their lubfidence dry Land appeared,
and received a Form; Wherefore then by a very reafohable
couldsltot that -Power,--that made the firft
igreat reparation of Fluids from Solids, once-again: cover all
with Fluids ? or Why could riot the fame' proportionate
‘riuami^fof Liffod's, that‘ tdild dilute fuefe a 6f Solids/
Orice^^gain overwhelm them t^tifciivhefri^v&s-'thelii
^the neceflity of a total diffolutforiof ’S^F- p P
Earth at the Del&ge'?' or why'mult all again Srettt|fl4cri'ts
primitive Chaos without form ? Befid.es' the' twiderice^of
all the recited Phenomena, Mofes v er y‘-readily-Olearsmbak
difficulty/' for Chap, 7.' he tel!s t h S ^ f Ark lifted
up above the Earthy that all thehlgb bills dnd'Ttt&uktaim
w ere Umme'd ; which' lifting dr floating of-the AnPibdve
the Earth, and covering of the Hills ao*f Mountains, foejns
to be very difTomnt to a Difldlution hotibat tha’t a'fljraili^e
Cataftrophe’occur’d to rthe fup^hcies?4 frithe Earth,®M§|
refiftlels motions oLmhe Waters/ which teany
evidences of their PoWer arid fRIniverfitiify-:' tirile:
Again, Chap. 8: The waters returned 'firbtri liffi The #;drt&j
not foparated as at the Creation, and
creafed eontinuaUff. dill- the 0m e
feen. Upon the whole 1 can foe tio reafqti why ari^!|&d#ld
fo elaborately endeavour to anhver Difficultie«s/ where none
prefont thenifelvcsj arid that hy fo quainta Method, <8$ tO
a mu fo the Reader by itarting greater;. t,
" Having now from Obforvations in fu tu r e add' foivihe
H iftoryy given an account of the Deluge;; that! We
form fome Idea of it, I thought it not hlconhfo&tiwith
iny Defign, to infert the following' Phjbnomeno n. Abou t
three Years ago near Hydeiin Che/bire happened an wnrifsSi
Flood, which overwhelm’d the Banks of the River, and
violently broke-in at the Eye o f a Coal-Pit, the- Water in
-its impetuous Current thro’ the hollows forc’d the Air before
it, which when pent* up in the Extremities of tlrbfe
Paflages; by its Elafticity divided a folid Rock aflealt io
Yards
Yards perpendicular; the Water over the greateft part; of
the Field appear’d in large Columns; not much unlike the
fofce,: the Rock
rclds’diag^in, 'asndjgll'ovef tJie:Field \4ere to belfoent wricli^
- p ietis-of 10Sal foaStcr’d«L Hence # eI may iiniagin i when; a 11
the Springs of the Deep'-were broken up, andtheClouris
pour’d down their Waters in continued Cataracts for forty
and; Nights;. ;in fo ftrange a Cbnvullion, I:fay/ from
t ill veditdd Phenomenon,, we may form ibme inadequate
-Idd^Ufo^rlte# -teerifel'e ©eforu <£Mo 11 1 was^efcpn pli fil’d. 11
i i And^jiri^'W^a^'trCatirigof jfonk -it a. pardonable
©igfoffiorf/sif bn 1 acriouani ® £ ia Bpout icen by
m y Brother withimthefo>tWo!Yta®S|Uin h?ibAII|y%e tO/JHi/V
i§inp$i■ tThesfigufe o f it! 'licaffiriris); eWasillkeua Sp-iire-
^iMpe^iri vdfiedyari di hriiigfof W eoMfi de^abfo Jtlnfo^frofo th e
Cloitdfe theforfitete Of divided, arid
then th^Seariwat in ri mofoy[folerit CoMmOtiony Which was
obforv’d-fey flfo fiowe^ii^'W*%hViWatof, ala he ltileddi ‘
thtd-dworPillar^hu ngi fc&s abeohficteMlblw tkub -upon theditr1
facero f th e Water, but at length Vanifii-ed,. the upper part
from the Clouds remain’d loiiger.: ■ His''Conjecture 1% that
the-llpbut' was not a Column t Of VYatet that afoended but
tholSria, but a CI<fod'^y'l^flfofi^^6fW^to='the' furfaCe
Of the Water, dM B a M thefo^l&llbris for fty-fofo, -be-
iclrifo the' much longer
thabfli^lwCr part, aftei- its divilion : in the-foerind place,
before’hhe SpOut ^ppriatt‘¥ fthe Air wasCektfeamfy dark, iiand
by'ltelf 'the Sea-men predicted th^^p^^wrieeJS^lS^oieC
Wh'lE fOtirier accounts %e‘hS^ew SlpOtitS in 'Authors^ are
differbrif footri m m Whethef therefore therriifanay be
Vatibiil2 forts of Spoil ts/ -I * ‘fl¥aff riOt ^deterniM^^^rieiri^
forreign to this Undertaking.
DaMpier cohfirms this* Accouritj by1 the ©bfcriptioii
whitii he'gi^es tis o f a Spoilt iri'hi^fiHil^olrinib,!ydg.
he faysv e lt is a fmall ragged1 pieeb of part of a CAoud, hang-
* irig down about a Yard’ foemiiigfyUrbM thefolackefo part
Kk x there