the temperate and inhabited Climates of that Earth,
and consequently there could never be the production or appearance of this Bow in the Clouds. Thus
much concerning the Rainbow.
To recollect our selves, and conclude this Chapter,
and the whole disquisition concerning the Waters of
the Primitive Earth; we seem to have so well satisfied
the difficulties propos'd in the beginning of the Chapter,
that they have rather given us an advantage; a better
discovery, and such a new prospect of that Earth, as
makes it not only habitable, but more fit to be
Paradisiacal. The pleasantness of the site of Paradise
is made to consist chiefly in two things, its Waters,
and its Trees, (Gen. 2. and Chap. 13. 10. Ezek. 31. 8.)
and considering the richness of that first soil in the
Primitive Earth, it could not but abound in Trees,
as it did in Rivers and Rivulets; and be wooded like
a Grove, as it was water'd like a Garden, in the temperate Climates of it; so as it would not be, methinks,
so difficult to find one Paradise there, as not to find
more than one.
CHAP. VI.
A Recollection and Review of what hath been said
concerning the Primitive Earth; with a more
full Survey of the State of the first World, Natural and Civil, and the comparison of it with the
present World.
WE have now, in a good measure, finisht our
description of the first and Ante-diluvian
Earth; And as Travellers, when they see strange
Countries, make it part of their pleasure and improvement, to compare them with their own, to observe the differences, and wherein they excel, or come
short of one another: So it will not be unpleasant,
nor unuseful, it may be, having made a discovery,
