AN EXAMINATION OF Dr. BURNET'S Theory of the Earth.

Chap. VI.

THE Theorist as he thinks having found a sufficient stock of waters for the supply of all the Rivers in the earth, does now enter upon the solution of another great difficulty, which is to shew, how in a smooth and regular earth the waters could run, and what way they would take their course after their arrival at the Poles in vapour; for since there were no Hills, nor Mountains, nor high Lands, in the first Earth, the vapours falling in the Frigid Zones and towards the Poles, there it seems they would stand in Lakes and Pooles, having no descent one way more than another. The Theorist therefore to take off the objection, will have the earth not to be of an exact Spherical, but an Oval figure, in which he sayes it is manifest that the Polar parts are higher than the Æquinoctial that is more remote from the Centre as appears by his figure, and this he tells us will do the business, For by that means the vapours which fall at