gravitates towards the Moon; ſo that when you think that the Moon ſhould make it Flood with us, thoſe Gentlemen fancy it ſhould be Ebb, which, very unluckily, cannot be prov'd. For to be able to do this, 'tis neceſſary the Moon and the Tides ſhould have been enquir'd into, at the very inſtant of the Creation.
You'll obſerve farther, that the Son, which in France is said to have nothing to do in the Affair, comes in here for very near a quarter of its Aſſiſtance. According to your Carteſians, every Thing is perform'd by an Impulſion, of which we have very little Notion; and according to Sir Iſaac Newton, 'tis by an Attraction, the Cauſe of which is as much unknown to us. At Paris you imagine that the Earth is ſhap'd like a Melon, or of an oblique Figure; at London it has an oblate one. A Carteſian declares that Light exiſts in the Air; but a Newtonian aſſerts that it comes from the Sun in ſix Minutes and a half. The ſeveral Operations of your Chymiſtry are perform'd by Acids,
