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Title: The natural history of Barbados : in ten books
Year: 1750 (1750s)
Authors: Hughes, Griffith, b. 1706 or 7 Mynda, engraver Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770, engraver Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, engraver Austen, engraver Erbets, engraver Larkin, Edmund, former owner
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Publisher: London : Printed for the author
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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on one Side or other of the Rivermuft, in all Probability, have been fafe, by the Interpofition of fo greata Quantity of Water. Laftly, Book II. IJland of BARBADOS. Laftly, If we fuppofe, that the whole Plain was fufficiently ftored withBitumen to caufe, in a natural Way, fuch a Defolation ; then we muftneceflarily grant, that it muft be a very barren Spot, and improper to beinhabited, contrary to its Situation, with regard to the Climate, and con-trary to the Defcription which is given of it: For, When Lot lifted uphis Eyes, he beheld all the Plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every-where ; and therefore made Choice of it. I hope I have faid enough to fliew, from the Nature of this Kind ofFofTil, and the Barrennefs of the Place wherein it is always found, aswell as from the great Extent and Suddennefs of the Deftrudion, that itcould not proceed, as Monf. he Clerc imagined, in a natural Way, fromthe Firing of thefe fuppofed Bituminous Veins, but from the miraculousPower of God.
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P Of the Natural Hijlory of the Book II.

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