The Preface.
have ſaid enough to evince that it is not ſo incredible, as ſome have pretended. For, having made the largeſt Conceſſions concerning the heights of the higheſt Mountains, which, according to the old Opinion, I have allowed may be thirty Miles high, Gen. VII 19. (whereas if inſtead of thirty, I had ſaid not above three perpendicular, I had had the beſt of the Modern Philoſophers to defend me) it appears there might be Water enough to cover the loftiest of them; as Moſes hath related.
Whoſe account of the Families by whom the Earth was peopled after the Flood, is ſo ſurpriſingly agreeable to all Records that remain in any Language, of the ſeveral Nations of the Earth, that it carries with it an uncontroulable Evidence of his Sincerity and truth, as well as of his admirable Univerſal Knowledge. For as there is no Writer that hath given us an Account of ſo many Nations, and ſo remote as he hath done: So he hath not ſatisfied himſelf with naming them; but acquainted us with their Original; and told us at what time, and from what place, and on what occaſion they were diſperſed into far diſtant Countries. And this with ſuch brevity, that he hath informed us of more in one Chapter, than we can find in the great Volumes of all other Authors:
