SOME REMARKES ON Mr. WHISTON'S Theory of the Earth.

    time of the Deluge passed by the Earth. It is surprizing to observe the exact correspondence between the Lunar and Solar year, upon the supposition of a circular Orbit, in which the Earth moved before the Deluge. It cannot but raise admiration in us, when we consider, that the Earth at the time of the Deluge was in its Perihelion, which would be the necessary effect of a Comet that passed by at that time, in drawing it from a Circular to an Elliptical Orbit. This together with the consideration that the Moon was exactly in such a place of its Orbit at that time, as equally attracted with the Earth, when the Comet passed by, seems to be a very convincing Argument that a Comet really came very near, and passed by the Earth, on the day the Deluge began.

But notwithstanding this, I believe it will be evident by the following considerations, that a Comet could never have produced those various effects that Mr. Whiston has attributed to it; and it will also further appear that the Deluge was the immediate work of the Divine power, and that no secondary causes without the interposition of Om