. 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 .. . lying in Stone, with their* Scales and Bones. Fig. 5. A Sea-Urchin petrifyd with its Prickles broken off,which are a Sort of Lapis fudaicMS, or J-ewStones , their In-fertions on the Studs or Protuberances of the Shell are hereihewn. See their Hiftory and Manner of Lying in Stone andBeds, in Agojimo Scilla, 4*0. Nafvli. Tab. IV. Pag. 204. ?pIG I, 2, 3, 4, 5, (?, 7s, 8, 9, 10, II, i
. 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 .. . lying in Stone, with their* Scales and Bones. Fig. 5. A Sea-Urchin petrifyd with its Prickles broken off,which are a Sort of Lapis fudaicMS, or J-ewStones , their In-fertions on the Studs or Protuberances of the Shell are hereihewn. See their Hiftory and Manner of Lying in Stone andBeds, in Agojimo Scilla, 4*0. Nafvli. Tab. IV. Pag. 204. ?pIG I, 2, 3, 4, 5, (?, 7s, 8, 9, 10, II, iz, 13, 14. Seve-?* ral petrifyd Teeth of Dog-Fillies, Sharks, and otherFifhes. Fig. I $5 i^. The fame lying in a Tophaceous Bed, and al-fo in a Jaw-Bone. Fig, 17. The petrifyd Teeth of a Wolf-Fifh, in a Pieceof the Jaw j the round ones, or Grinders, are fold in Mal-tha for petrifyd Eyes of Serpents ; and by our Jewellers andGoldfmiths for Toad-ftones, commonly put in Rings. Fig. 18, 19, zo. Other petrifyd Bones of FiSies, efpe-cially Jouits, or Vertebras of Back-Bones, one with twollony Spines iffuing out, f. 20. See them more at large in theDraughts of that cunous Sicilian Painter, Agofiim Scilla. Chap. there have been great Changes madein the Superficial Part of the Earth Jincethe General Delugeyand by what Means, Shall now difcourfe a lit-tle concerning fuch Changesas have been made in the Su-perficial Part of the Earth fincethe univerfal Deluge, and oftheir there have been fuch, I think no fo-ber and intelligent Perfon can deny^ there be-ing fo good Authority and Reafon to proveit. FlatOj in his Thfi^us^ tells us. That theEgyptian Priefts related to Solon the Atheni-an Law-giver, who lived about 600 Yearsbefore our Saviour,that there was of old Time,without the Streights of Gibfaltaryi vaft Ifland,,bigger than Africa and Afia together, calledAtlantis^ which was afterward by a violentEarthquake and mighty Flood, and Inunda-tion of Water, in one Day
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