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 ''have aid enough to evince that it is not o incredible, as ome have pretended. For, having made the larget Conceions concerning the heights of the highet Mountains, which, according to the old Opinion, I have allowed may be thirty Miles high,'' Gen. VII 19. (whereas if intead of thirty, I had aid not above three perpendicular, I had had the bet of the Modern Philoophers to defend me) it appears there might be Water enough to cover the loftiest of them; as Moes hath related.

''Whoe account of the Families by whom the Earth was peopled after the Flood, is o urpriingly agreeable to all Records that remain in any Language, of the everal Nations of the Earth, that it carries with it an uncontroulable Evidence of his Sincerity and truth, as well as of his admirable Univeral Knowledge. For as there is no Writer that hath given us an Account of o many Nations, and o remote as he hath done: So he hath not atisfied himelf with naming them; but acquainted us with their Original; and told us at what time, and from what place, and on what occaion they were dipered into far ditant Countries. And this with uch brevity, that he hath informed us of more in one Chapter, than we can find in the great Volumes of all other Authors:'' Having