Consequences of the Deluge* 173from its being exactly level, and strowed all£ Ver with stones, as I have observed thebottom of the Sea in many places to be, thathere is not the least reason to doubt of it.

. The River Arnus in Tuscany now fallethlntQ the Sea six Miles below Visa wherebyJ a Ppeareth, (faith Dr. Hakewil) that thehath gained much upon the Sea in thatS°ast, for that Strabo in his time reporteth,!L Was but twenty Furlongs (that is, but two."hies and an half) distant from the Sea.

I might to these add many other Instances0 Atterrations out of Strabo in his sirst Book ;f about the Outlets of Ifter the places cal-le d Stethe and the Deserts of Scythia • aboutl hose of Phafis tiie Sea-coast of Colchis,^hich is sandy, and low and soft. Aboutmo don and Iris all Themiscyra, the plain

j stte Amazons , and the most part of Si-de-

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Pr' k 0 orn ^ whole Land ok Egypt, which

£ °uably was covered originally with thek a > and raised up by the mud and siltpj 0l, ght down by the Nile in its Annualf Oods subsiding there, as I shall have occa-shew afterwards.

Moreover, Varenius rationally conjectures, at all China , or a g»eat part of it, was ori-^Oally thus raised up and atterrated, havingen anciently covered with the Sea: for that

that