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 wa 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... / [Alexander Catcott].

  • Catcott, Alexander, 1725-1779
Date:
1761
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Credit: 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 wa 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... / [Alexander Catcott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *5 3 « p. 1-04. where we may fuppofe the fur face of thif 4 earth was, when there were no mountains, but ail c this world was an uniform globe, covered with water c (as at the creation) there the fir at a are uniform; and 6 the feveral layers of them, whether fand, clay, mi- 6 nerals or gravel, are difpofed in an horizontalpofition, 4 parallel to one another.5 This laft obfervatien (which is the only proof brought for his Lordfhip’s- opinion, and is laid down upon the authority of Mw- fieur Buffon) is certainly fade in fa£t ^ as I will venture to affirm, every one will find that will but make ten observations upon the regular ftrata of the earth, in ten different places ; it being far more common to find the Strata, which lie beneath the dutch and rub¬ ble left by the waters of the deluge, upon the furface of the earth, inclined in various directions, rather than horizontally difpofed; which muff undeniably prove that fuch fir at a have been moved or difplacedy and of courfe, that the effe&s of the deluge reached below what is called by Some, thefafi-gromdy or what our Author imagines to have been the furface of the Earth before the flood. And I dare fay, if he will have the earth opened in the places, where the above mentioned horns of the moofe-deer, &c. were found, deeper than ten feet, he will difcover as many infallible marks * of the deluge, as the horns, &c. of the aforefaid animals, fuch, for in fiance, as fea-fhells, teeth and bones of other animals, or plants, &c. At leaft inch are frequently found in England, beneath what is commonly called Clutch} and 1 fuppofe Ireland was not more favoured during the deluge than Eng¬ land. In Short, what is called Clutch, is no more, (al I obferved before) than the matter, which the waters ' in their retreat from the earth at the end of the deluge, left on places fit to receive it, as the flats on the Tides of mountains, the bottoms of dales, vallies» &c. at