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 easily dis-proved by denying, as affirmed by asserting, since no Records nor Traditions of the Memory of the Facts are pretended; and something easier, because it may be demonstrably proved, that a general Flood cannot be effected without a Miracle. Now, partial Deluges are not sufficient: If one Country be destroyed, another is preserved; and if the People of that Country have Learning among them, they will also have a Tradition, that it once was in the other Countries too, which are now dis-peopled.

Upwards of the Age of Hippocrates, Knowledge may be traced to its several Sources: But of any great Matters done before Moses, there are no sort of Foot-steps remaining, which do not, by their Contradictions, betray their Falshood; setting those aside which Moses himself has preserved. There is Reason to suppose that Invasions of Barbarous