€6 Consequences of the Deluge .

distance between both, as some skilful Sail^ 5report, not exceeding 2.4 English Miles. <

Some of the Ancients, as Strato, quoteby Strabo in the first Book of his Geograpty '(ay, That the Fretum Gaditanum or Str<nof Gibraltar, was forcibly broken open P;the Sea. The fame they affirm of the 7 ^'cian Bosphorus and Hellespont, that the ft*vers silling up the Euxine Sea, forced a p 3 *'sage that way, where there was none besotsAnd in confirmation hereof, Diodorusculus in his Fifth Book gives us an Ancief*Story current among th e Samothracians,^That before any other Floods recorded in ft*'stories, there was a very great Deluge th 3overflowed a good part of the Coast of Arand the lower Grounds of their Island, wh e<1the Euxine Sea first brake open the thrac^lBosphorus and Hellespont , and drowned 3 ‘the adjacent Countries.

This Traditional Story I look upon pvery considerable for its Antiquity and P^-bability, it seeming to contain something 0truth. For it’s not unlikely that the Eus l ^ tSea, being over-charged with Waters by e *'traordinary Floods, or driven with viok*!Jlorms of Wind,might make its way throughthe Bosphorus and Hellespont. But it u '*be objected, That the Euxine Sea doth einPjty it self continually by the Bosphorus an ^