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Consequences of the Deluge.

But you will lay, Hath there been no^°nipeufation made for all this: Hath notInst a odier-where gained as much as it hatht j *■ about the Mouths of the Rivers? If not,or (I ^ le ^ ea * n time be so far landed up,sttaitned till it be compelled to return a-and overflow the whole Earth,ar c w Bich * answer,That where the lhorese Earthy or Argillaceous, or Gravelly, or|j a deof any crumbling and friable matter,^ Sea doth undermine and subvert them,^ gain upon the Land ; which I couldslj°,y e By many Instances, some of which I^ afterward touch. But whether the Seaoso i n these places gain proportionably to■ iat it loses in the fore-metitioned, accord-to the Vulgar Proverb, is to me some-question&.

To proceed now to discourse a little con-, tnseg the Changes that have been madeof j corruptions and Inundations of die Sea,jj^By its undermining and washing away the

9 there have been of old great Floods,da? niuc h Land laid under Water by Inun-• l °ns of the Sea, is clear, many liich be-8 recorded in History.

Her i ^ost ancient of all» next to the ge-of n ^Eluge in the days of Noah, viz. thatVfy&es King of Bceotia, or rather Attica ,

seems