An Essay Towards a Natural History of the Earth,: And Terrestrial Bodyes, Especialy Minerals: as Also of the Sea, Rivers, and Springs. : With an Account of the Universal Deluge: and of the Effects that it Had Upon the EarthA. Bettesworth and W. Taylor ... R. Gosling ... and J. Clarke, 1723 - 304 pages |
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... muft ne- ceffarily defift here , and fit down ( for the prefent at leaft ) with what I had already done ; having little Profpect of an Opportunity of car- rying on thefe Obfervations any far- ther , or of going beyond Seas , to confider ...
... muft ne- ceffarily defift here , and fit down ( for the prefent at leaft ) with what I had already done ; having little Profpect of an Opportunity of car- rying on thefe Obfervations any far- ther , or of going beyond Seas , to confider ...
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... muft needs follow , that there were fuch Shell - fish once in Being ; which is enough for my Pur- pofe ; I being no ways concerned to make out that there are of the fame Kinds ftill actualy living in the Ocean , Though if I was ...
... muft needs follow , that there were fuch Shell - fish once in Being ; which is enough for my Pur- pofe ; I being no ways concerned to make out that there are of the fame Kinds ftill actualy living in the Ocean , Though if I was ...
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... muft in tract of Time needs decay and rot , and at laft quite vanish and disappear ; and ' tis not to me any great Wonder , that at this Distance of four thou- fand Years , we find fo very few of them remaining . So that I think I may ...
... muft in tract of Time needs decay and rot , and at laft quite vanish and disappear ; and ' tis not to me any great Wonder , that at this Distance of four thou- fand Years , we find fo very few of them remaining . So that I think I may ...
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... muft needs freely own , that when I first directed my Thoughts this Way , ' twas Matter of real Ad- miration to me , to find that a Be- lief of fo many and fo great Altera- tions in the Earth , had gained fo large Footing , and made ...
... muft needs freely own , that when I first directed my Thoughts this Way , ' twas Matter of real Ad- miration to me , to find that a Be- lief of fo many and fo great Altera- tions in the Earth , had gained fo large Footing , and made ...
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... muft needs make very fhort and defective Judgements , and , oftentimes very erroneous , and wide of Truth . Some fancyful Men have expected nothing but Confufion and Ruin from thofe very Means whereby both that and this is most ...
... muft needs make very fhort and defective Judgements , and , oftentimes very erroneous , and wide of Truth . Some fancyful Men have expected nothing but Confufion and Ruin from thofe very Means whereby both that and this is most ...
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