2nd, That before the present land was made, there had subsisted a world composed of sea and land, in which were tides and currents, with such operations at the bottom of the sea as now take place.
Segundo, que antes de que a actual Terra se fixera, había un mundo composto por mar e terra, no que as mareas e as correntes operaban no fondo do mar de igual forma a como agora teñen lugar.