An ESSAY towards a

Natural History

OF THE

EARTH.

AND

Terreftrial Bodyes,

ESPECIALY

MINERALS:

As alfo of the
SEA, RIVERS, and SPRINGS.

With an Account of the

UNIVERSAL DELUGE:

And of the Effects that it had upon the

EARTH.

By JOHN WOODWARD, M. D. Profeffor of
Phyfick in Grelham-College: Fellow of the Col-
lege of Physicians, and of the Royal-Society.
The Third Edition.

LONDON:

Printed for A. BETTESWORTH and W.TAYLOR
in Pater-nofter Row, R. GOSLING at the Mid-
dle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-firect, and J. CLARKE
under the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill, 1723.

;

THE

PREFACE,

H

AVING, in the Effay it felf, given fome Intimation both of the Defign of it, and the Reasons which induced me to make it publick, I shall not here keep the Reader in Sufpenfe much longer than while I acquaint him that, propofing to draw a confiderable Number of Materials into fo narrow a Compafs that they might all be contain'd in this fmall Volume, I was obliged to be very brief and concife. And therefore, as Pieces of Miniature, Sculpture, or other Workmanship in Little, must be allow'd a clofer Inspection, fo this Treatife

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