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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... tion both of the Defign of it , and the Reasons which induced me to make it pub- lick , I shall not here keep the Reader in Sufpenfe much longer than while I acquaint him that , propofing to draw a confiderable Number of Materials into ...
... tion both of the Defign of it , and the Reasons which induced me to make it pub- lick , I shall not here keep the Reader in Sufpenfe much longer than while I acquaint him that , propofing to draw a confiderable Number of Materials into ...
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... tion in the Perufal . NOT but that I have endeavour'd , as far as was practicable in this fort Compafs , fo to difpofe and orderThings , by interweaving with the Affertions Some of the Proofs whereon they de- pend , and occafionaly ...
... tion in the Perufal . NOT but that I have endeavour'd , as far as was practicable in this fort Compafs , fo to difpofe and orderThings , by interweaving with the Affertions Some of the Proofs whereon they de- pend , and occafionaly ...
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... tion and Infight into Nature is grea- ter or lefs . Those who have Attention enough to take in the intire Platform as bere laid down : who fee the Chain which runs through the whole and can pick up and bear in Mind the Obfervations and ...
... tion and Infight into Nature is grea- ter or lefs . Those who have Attention enough to take in the intire Platform as bere laid down : who fee the Chain which runs through the whole and can pick up and bear in Mind the Obfervations and ...
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... , if not . by the naked Eye . That though the Thing had been fo that this Accre- tion had not been thus difcernible , infra . W and and confequently the Alteration of thefe Shells could not have 22 The Natural Hiftory.
... , if not . by the naked Eye . That though the Thing had been fo that this Accre- tion had not been thus difcernible , infra . W and and confequently the Alteration of thefe Shells could not have 22 The Natural Hiftory.
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... thefe Marine Bodies vindicated and affert- ed and my Way fo far effectualy cleared by the foregoing Differta- tion ; I now re - affume my original : Defign , Defign , and pafs on to inquire by what Means 36 The Natural History.
... thefe Marine Bodies vindicated and affert- ed and my Way fo far effectualy cleared by the foregoing Differta- tion ; I now re - affume my original : Defign , Defign , and pafs on to inquire by what Means 36 The Natural History.
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