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* 1.1By the separation of the Elements the water was gathered into the place which the mysterie had alotted it. Thus every thing whatsoever that lurked in the Elementary vertue and pro∣perty thereof was more fully divided by a second separation, and the water parted into many spe∣ciall mysteries, all which had their matrix from the Element of water. One part thereof be∣came fishes, and they are of many forms and kinds, some beasts, some salt; much of it sea∣plants, as Corals, Trines and Citrons;* 1.2 a great deal of it sea-monsters contrary to the manner and naturall course of the Elements, very much became Nymphs, Syrenes, Drames, Lorind,* 1.3 Nesder; some reasonable creatures, having something eternall in their body, and propaga∣ting themselves; some also that die totally, and some that are againe separated in time. For the perfect separation of the element of water is not yet made. But as the great harvest hastneth and cometh on, a new increase may spring up every year in the Element of water. And this sepa∣ration is made at the same instant when the o∣ther Elements are separated, in one dayes work, and by the motion of sequestration. So that every thing thus living in the water was at once in a minute and moment of time created and made manifest by the separation.