164 Consequences of the Deluge.

and New World were at first continuous, 0 sby the Intervention of that Island not vetyfar remote from each other.

That the Island of Sicily was of old br^*ken off from Italy by the irruption or in' 1 'nuation of the Sea is generally believed,there is some memorial thereof retainedthe very name of the City Rhegium, stand'ing upon the Fretum that separates Italy an"Sicily, which signifies breaking off

, 0vi(( >—* Zancle quoque junfta

Mitm.lib. Dicitur Italia , donee confinia pontus**• Abstulit , G media tellurem reppulit undfl.

In like manner the Island called Eulœa notNegroponte, was of old joy ned to Greece,^broken off by the working of the Sea.

Moreover, the Inhabitants of Ceylon (£ 'port that their Island was anciently joyned ^the Main-land of India , and separated fr^it by the force of the Sea. ,

It is also thought, and there is g°°\ground for it, that the Island ofwas anciently continuous with Malacca , 311called the Golden Chersonese: for being ^held from afar, it seems to be united to $

lacca.

And to come nearer home, Fersteg a* ^firms, and not without good reason, tbat^