A treatise on the deluge
Subtitle: Containing I. Remarks on the Lord Bishop of Clogher's account of that event. II. A full explanation of the Scripture history of it. III. A collection of all the principal heathen accounts. IV. Natural proofs of the deluge, deduced from a great variety of circumstances, on and in the terraqueous globe. : And, under the foregoing general articles, the following particulars will be occasionally discussed and proved; viz. The time when, and the manner how America was first peopled. -- The mosaic account of the deluge written by inspiration. -- The certainty of an abyss of water within the earth. -- The reality of an inner globe or central nucleus. -- The cause of the subterranean vapour, and of earthquakes. -- The origin of springs, lakes, &c. -- The formation of mountains, hills, dales, vallies [sic], &c. -- The means by which the bed of the ocean was formed. -- The cause of caverns or natural grottos; with a description of the most remarkable, especially those in England. -- Also an explication of several lesser phænomena in nature. : Illustrated with two copper plates; one, representing the dtate of the earth during the height of the flood; the other, the state of the earth as it is at present
By: By Alexander Catcott, A.M. Vicar of Temple in Bristol
Contributors: Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: The second edition, considerable enlarged.
Publisher: Printed for the author, by E. Allen, in Bolt-Court; and sold by B. White, at Horace's-Head, in Fleet-Street.
Published: 1768
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Subjects: Evidences, authority; Deluge; Early works to 1800; Authority; Religious aspects; Bible
Notes: The Lord Bishop of Clogher is Robert Clayton. -- ESTC.

Signatures: A-2D⁸ 2E⁴ (2E4 verso blank).

"Errata."--Page 423.

English short title catalogue, T103396

Sabin 11496

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.