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

Chap. I.

An Examination of the Theorists general Argument which he uses to prove the Truth of his Theory.

In the second and third Chapters the Theorist makes way for an Argument which he alledges in his seventh to prove the truth of his Theory, viz. that all other wayes for the explication of Noah's Flood are false and impossible, and that he has given the only possible, and consistent Idea of an universal flood, and therefore it came to pass the way he has assigned and no other. This Argument we see is founded upon two Propositions. 1st. That no other way is possible, and 2dly That his own Theory is an intelligible and consistent explication of the universal flood. This last Proposition I intend to examin in the following Chapter, and the first in this.

The Theorist, to prove all the common ways of explicating the universal deluge false and impossible, Calculates