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 the main Objection, as the finding of particular Circumstances which might suit with those Ages that did exceed ours, and with those Things wherein they did exceed them, and with no other Age nor Thing besides; I did at last please my self, that I had found these Circumstances; and in setting them down, I took Care, neither to be deceived my self, nor (as I hope) to deceive any Body else.

But what shall be said to those numerous Deluges, which, no Body knows how many Ages before that of Noah, or before one another, are said to have carried away all Mankind, except here and there a Couple of ignorant Salvages, who got to some high Mountain, and from thence afterwards replenished the Earth? This Hypothesis (as these Men call it) is so very precarious, that there needs nothing to be replied, but only that it is as