and Particular, than in Matters better known, or where the Author may be referred unto.

In the former Editions I promised another Part I had relating to the Heavens, if I was thereunto encouraged. And two large Impreffions of this Book having been fold off, so as to admit of a Third before the Year was gone about; and bearing that it is tranflated into two, if not three Languages: but especially having been importuned by divers learned Perfons, both known and unknown, I have thought myself Sufficiently engaged to perform that Promife; aud have accordingly published that Part.

my

So that I have now carried my Survey through moft Parts of the visible Creation, except the Waters, which are for the most Part omitted; and the Vegetables, which, for want of Time, I was forced to treat of in a perfunctory Manner. And to the Understanding of the former of thefe, having received divers Solicitations from Perfons unknown, as well as known, 1 think Self bound in Civility to own their Favour, and to return them my hearty Thanks for the kind Opinion they have fhewn of my other Performances, that they have encouraged me to undertake this other Tafk. And accordingly I have begun it, and (as far as my Affairs will permit) have made fome Progress in it: But Age and Avocations growing upon me, I begin to fear I fhall fcarce be able to finish it as I would, and therefore must recommend that ample aud noble Subject to others, who have more Leifure and would do it better than I.

As

As to Additions, I have been much follicited thereunto by divers curious and learned Perfons, who would have had me to infert fome of their Obfervations, and many more of my own; but in a Work of this Nature, this would have been endlefs: And although the Book would thereby be rendered much better, and more complete, yet I could by no means excufe fo great an Injustice to the Purchafers of the former Editions. And therefore (except in the Second Edition, where it was not eafy to be avoided) few Additions have been made, befides what were Typographical or of Small Confideration. Only in the third Edition I amended the firft Paragraph of Note 1. Chap. 5. Book I. concerning Gravity; and in the Fourth, Page 16, and 18, I inferted two Paffages out of Seneca, that were inadvertently left out, and corrected many Things, that upon a careful Review, feemed to want Amendment.

And lastly, as to the following Analyfis, it was added at the Request of fome of my learned and ingenious Friends; and although it might have been contracted, they would not fuffer it to be fo.

AN

T

HE Works of the Creation relating to our Terraqueous
Globe, are fuch as are vifible in the

Outworks or Appendages of the Globe, viz, thefe Three 1. The Atmosphere,

Compofed of Air and Vapours, Page 4

Ufeful to

Winds, which are of great Ufe and Neceffity

To the Salubrity and Pleasure of the Air, 14.
In various Engines, 18..

In Navigation.

Clouds and Rain: Of great Ufe to the

Refreshment of the Earth and the Things therein, 20.

Origin of Fountains, according to fome, 23.

2. Light. Its

Fountain, 26.

Its great Benefit, 33.

Caufe of Levity, which is of great Ufe in the World, 35 Terraqueous Globe itself. Of which I take a View in General, of

Its spherical Figure, which is the most commodious in regard of

Light, 40.
Heat.

Lodgment

of the Waters.

The Winds. 41.

Its Bulk, 43.

Its Motion, ibid.

Diurnal.

Its Place and Distance from the Sun, and other Heavenly Bodies, 46.

Its Diftribution, so as to cause all the Parts of the Globe to S Balance each other, 48.

Be helpful to one another.

The great Variety and Quantity of all Things ferving for Food, Phyfick, Building, and every Ufe and Occafion of all Ages, Places, and Creatures, 53.

An Objection anfwered, 55.

Particular, of the Earth; of its

Constituent Parts, viz. Its

Soils and Moulds, neceffary to the

Growth of various Vegetables, 61.

{Various Occafions of Man and other Animals, 62.

Various Strata or Beds, affording Materials for

Tools.

Firing.
Building.

Dying, and thousands of other Things, 64.
Conveyance of the fweet Fountain-Waters, 65.

Subterraneous Caverns and Vulcanos; of great Ufe to the
Countries where they are, 67.

Mountains and Valleys, which are not rude Ruins, but Works of Defign, inafmuch as this Structure of the Earth

is

The moft Beautiful and Pleasant.

The most Salubrious: to some Constitutions, the Hills; To fome, the Valleys, 71.

Best to skreen us, and other Things, 72.

Beneficial to the

Production of various Vegetables.

Harbour and Maintenance of various Animals, 73.
Generation of Minerals and Metals, 75.

Abfolutely neceffary to the Conveyance of the Rivers; and in all Probability to the Origin of Fountains, ib.

Con