An Examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth Along With Some Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory of the Earth

An Examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth Along With Some Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory of the Earth

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AN EXAMINATION OF Dr. BURNET'S Theory of the Earth.
  The Introduction.
  Chap. I.
  Chap. II.
  Chap. III.
  Chap. IV.
  Chap. V.
  Chap. VI.
  Chap. VII.

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

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

Chap. V.

Of Rivers.

The Theorist having represented to us the first Earth as a smooth regular and uniform body without Mountains and without a Sea; In the 5th Chap. of his second book he starts a great difficulty how it was watered, from what causes, and in what manner, how could Fountains rise or Rivers ftow in an Earth of that form and nature? he has shut up the Sea with thick walls on every side, and taken away all communication that could be 'twixt it and the external earth, he has removed all the Hills and Mountains where the Springs use to rise, and whence the Rivers descend to water the face of the ground, and lastly, he has left no issue for these Rivers, no Ocean to receive them, or any place to disburthen themselves into. So that his new found World is like to be a dry and barren wilderness, and so far from being Paradisaical that it would scarce be Habitable.

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