Consequences of the Deluge.to which the Ships that there sometimes as'rived were satined. I (ay erroneously,seeingall the Countreys between that and the Se®are level, and ot' an equal Superficies , wit* 1 *out any Hills or Risings, z. This appear 3not only from the great plainness and eve* 1 *nets of the Ground, but in that the Soilnerally both in Flanders and Er ah ant is (an*dy ; whence it teems naturally to foliosthat those Countreys were anciently th eFlats, Sands, or shores of the Sea. z.lnth-^digging about two Fathom more or less de £ Pin the Earth innumerable shells of Sea-#' 1are found, and that commonly in all plac eSboth of Field and Town; and in manyces the great Bones of Fishes.

Further (faith Verstegan) it is to be r> 0 'ted, that albeit digging deep in the Earth ^Brabant and Flanders , great abundance 0sliels and bones of Fifties are to be found ;digging in the Earth in Holland andland , none at all are perceived; howbeitthe Sands on the Sea-shore there are veymany. The reason whereof may be becav'^those parts have been in time long past p astof the depth of the Sea: and the partsforesaid of Brabant and Flanders the flats 0shore; and on the flats, and not in thdepths, such kind of Shell-fish are naturalvnourished. This is a very plausible acc0^ c '