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jfland of Great Britain , was anciently Con*jfient to Gaule, and so no Island but a Penin -

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and to have been broken off* from the. n tinent, but by what means it is in his| U( ^gment

altogether uncertain : whether“■Mome great Earthquake, whereby the Sea, , breaking through might afterward byt . t ‘ e and little enlarge her passage ; or whe-ler it were cut by the labour of Man in re-of commodity by that passage: or whe-*er the Inhabitants of one side,or the other,occasion of War did cut it,thereby to bee< 3 hestred and freed from their Enemies.

His Arguments to prove that it was sor-ely united to France , are , i. The Cliffs° a either side the Sea, lying just opposite the^ to the other, that is, those of Dover to^>ose lying between Callice and Bouloin , (forDover to Ca/lice is not the nearest Land)both of one Substance , that is , ofbalk and Flint. 2.. The sides of both to-1 ar bs the Sea plainly appearing to have„ ee n broken off from some more of the fameor matter , that it hath sometime byo at ure been fastned to. 3. The length ofle said Cliffs along the Sea-lhore being ont . nc side answerable in effect to the length ofr le Very ijk e on t b e other side, that is, aboutt * Miles. And 4. the nearness of Land bc-Ve en England and France in that place $ the

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