Consequences of the Deluge . %j i

th^ lt * iat k been by experience found,if 1 ." you dig deep enough, even in Hoi-oT i? lt ^^fler many floors of several fortsse II rt ^’ ^ ou at come to Beds of\yf?\ ^ or Vzrenius tells us, that sinking ae h in Amsterdam, after many beds or lay-of Earth, Sand, Turf, &c. at an bun-s' e ~ foot depth they came to a bed of Sea-.set! mixt with Cockle-shells of four footsickness, which doubtless was of old timebottom ol the Sea, and all the otherpj s above it were brought down partly by°ods subsiding and fettling there, partly by£ Working os the Sea spreading beds ofj a °d upon the layers of the Earth, and so^terchangeably. But from this Experiment^doth appear, that however deep the Seai ere thereabouts, yet it was not too deep totc ed or harbour ihell-fi/h.

• soother great instance of Change made

• see Superficies of the Earth by atterration.‘Hourown Country, the great level of

fens running through Holland in Lin-the IJle of Ely in Cambridgeshire,

^ ( ‘ Marjhland in Norfolk. Which that it*<bmetimepart of the Sea, and atterra-t j d by Eand brought down by Floods fromt j e u Pper Grounds, seems to me evident, inr j at his near the Sea, and in that there is

'•teabout a concurrence of many great Ri-vers