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Natural history, general and particular / by the Count de Buffon, translated into English. Illustrated with above 300 copper-plates, and occasional notes and observations. By William Smellie.

  • Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Date:
1785
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Credit: Natural history, general and particular / by the Count de Buffon, translated into English. Illustrated with above 300 copper-plates, and occasional notes and observations. By William Smellie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * gique diei unius et noétis illuvione fadum eft, “ut terra dehifcens omnes illos bellicofos abfor- * beret, et Atlantis infula fub vafto gurgite mer- “geretur. Plato in Timaco. This ancient tra- dition 1s not devoid of probability. The lands {wallowed up by the waters were, perhaps, thofe which united Ireland to the Azores, and the Azores to the continent of America; for, in Ireland, there are the fame foffils, the fame fhells, and the fame fea-bodies, as appear in America, and fome of them are found in no other part of Europe. Two evidences are mentioned by Eufebius on the fubjeét of deluges: The one is Melo, who affirms, that all the plains of Syria were former- Ty laid under water: The other is Abidenus, who fays, that, in the reign of King Sifithrus, there was a great deluge, which had been pre- diéted by Saturn. Plutarch De Solertia Anima- lium, Ovid, and other mythologiits, defcribe the deluge of Deucalion, which happened, they fay, in Theffaly, about 700 years after the univerfai deluge. It is alfo alledged, that there was a fill more ancient deluge in Attica, during the time of Ogiges, about 230 years perene that of Deucalion. In the year 1095, a deluge in Syria drowned a prodigious number of people * In 1164, a deluge in Friefland covered the whole _ environs of the coafts, and drowned feveral thoufands of the inhabitants}. Another inun- dation,
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