A treatise on the deluge : containing : I. Remarks on the Lord Bishop of Clogher's account of that event : II. A full explanation of the Scripture history of it : III. A collection of all the principal heathen accounts : IV. Natural proofs of the deluge, deduced from a great variety of circumstances, on and in the terraqueous globe : and, under the foregoing general articles, the following particulars will be occasionally discussed and proved, viz. : The time when, and the manner how America was first peopled : The Mosaic account of the deluge written by inspiration : The certainty of an abyss of water within the earth : The reality of an inner globe or central nucleus : The cause of the subterranean vapour, and of earthquakes : The origin of springs, lakes, &c. : The formation of mountains, hills, dales, vallies, &c. : The means by which the bed of the ocean was formed : The cause of caverns or natural grottos : with a description of the most remarkable, especially those in England : also an explication of several lesser phænomena in nature / illustrated with two copper plates ; one, representing the state of the earth during the height of the flood ; the other, the state of the earth as it is at present ; by Alexander Catcott ...
Uniform Title: | Sabin Americana, 1500-1926.
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Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for the author, by E. Allen,
1768.
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Edition: | The second edition considerably enlarged. |
Series: | Sabin Americana, 1500-1926.
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Physical Description: | viii, 8 unnumbered pages, 423 pages II plate ; 22 cm |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Published: Sold by M. Withers, 1761
A treatise on the deluge : containing, I. Remarks on the Lord Bishop of Clogher's account of that event : II. A full explanation of the Scripture history of it : III. A collection...
Published: Sold by M. Withers, 1761
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296 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations
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