Consequences of the Deluge.^Unc| ere ni ^§^ t ea ^y be drown-

converted into Sea

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and of

tli ” ' ,vyi,v, -“-t u ujLu ota againt f S rea t harms that these Parts have here-ore by the Irruption ot the Sea sustained.

n °w not only those low Places that ad-

n Upon the Sea, as Holland and Zealand,^ stie greater part of Flanders and Bra-s nt % though they lye not Ib low as they,of such height as no Inundation of the<, ea can any whit annoy them, though thea ud-Banks and Downs on the Sea-stde werea ever lo much broken or cut through, yetr c they as even and level as even Hollandt nd Zealand themselves, which is a fuslici-demonstration, that they were once co-I cred with Water. For that Water will thus^el Ground, it often runs over, is clearMeadows, and from the bottom of thejf a discovered at Low-water ; and we liave^persence of no other Cause that doth or^ effect it. And therefore Lewis Guicciar-lHe erroneously argues Hubert Thomas Sc-*/^ ar y to Count Frederick Palatine of theP*f«e 0 f a Mistake, for saying in his Dc-^ option of the Country of Liege , that theea hath come up even to Tongres Walls ,p° vv Well nigh an hundred English Miles/P^stieSea: among other good Reasons,^'ffging for the proof thereof, that the& rea t Iromrings are there yet remaining, un-to