_The second Proposition is laid down, viz. That The Face of the Earth
before the Deluge was smooth, regular and uniform; without Mountains,
and without a Sea. The Chaos out of which the World rose is fully
examin’d, and all its Motions observ’d, and by what Steps it wrought it
self into an habitable World. Some things in Antiquity relating to the
first State of the Earth are interpreted, and some things in the sacred
Writings. The divine Art and Geometry in the Construction of the first
Earth is observ’d and celebrated._ ... 71