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110 gravitates towards the Moon; o that when you think that the Moon hould make it Flood with us, thoe Gentlemen fancy it hould be Ebb, which, very unluckily, cannot be prov'd. For to be able to do this, 'tis neceary the Moon and the Tides hould have been enquir'd into, at the very intant of the Creation.

oberve farther, that the Son, which in France is said to have nothing to do in the Affair, comes in here for very near a quarter of its Aitance. According to your Carteians, every Thing is perform'd by an Impulion, of which we have very little Notion; and according to Sir Iaac Newton, 'tis by an Attraction, the Caue of which is as much unknown to us. At Paris you imagine that the Earth is hap'd like a Melon, or of an oblique Figure; at London it has an oblate one. A Carteian declares that Light exits in the Air; but a Newtonian aerts that it comes from the Sun in ix Minutes and a half. The everal Operations of your Chymitry are perform'd by Acids, Alkalies