. The sacred theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consummation of all things . Theory of the Earth. $6t Let (A) reprefent an Hemifphere of the Earth, m itsfirft State, when covered with Water ; and(B) the fameHemifphere as it is now. This Author mud tell us, con-fidently with hisHypothefis, how the Earth could pafs outof one of thefe States into the other, without palTingthrough fome intermediate State; or how this Change wasmade in its Surface, from what Caufes, and
. The sacred theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consummation of all things . Theory of the Earth. $6t Let (A) reprefent an Hemifphere of the Earth, m itsfirft State, when covered with Water ; and(B) the fameHemifphere as it is now. This Author mud tell us, con-fidently with hisHypothefis, how the Earth could pafs outof one of thefe States into the other, without palTingthrough fome intermediate State; or how this Change wasmade in its Surface, from what Caufes, and in what man-ner. If the firft Earth was a Concretion upon the Face ofthe Waters, then indeed it would have the fame Figurewith the watery Globe under it; but if it was from theBeginning in this prefent Form firm and folid, as it is now-rocky and mountainous, then the Queftion is, bow theParts or Regions of the Earrh about the Equator couldbe raifed above a fpherical Figure, or into an oblateSpheroid, as they fay the Earth is now. I take it forgranted, that they fuppofe the Land raifed as well as theWater; for otherwise the Ocean would overflow at thofeParts of the Earth. Suppofe then the Waters raif
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