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Consequences of the Deluge.seems to have been of this nature: So doththat of a great part of Achaia in Feloponf'sus , wherein the Cities of Bura and H^ ewere overwhelmed and laid underter.

Cambden out of Gyraldus reports, Th at;anciently a great part of Pembrokejhire r* 15out in the form of a Promontory towafd 5Ireland; as appears by that Speech of Kil^William Rufus, That he could easily with h lSShips make a Bridge over the Sea, so thatmight pass on foot from thence to Ireh n "‘This Tract of Ground being all buried 111deep Sands during the Reign of King Hedjthe Second, was by the violence of a mig* 1 'ty storm to far uncovered,that many sturflP*of great Trees appeared fastnedin the Eard 1 /Iclufque fecurium tanquam heft er ni (“faith ^raid us) and the ftrokes of the Axes in th^’as if they had been cut but yesterday; utlittus jam, fed lucus effe videretur, miraw 1rerum mutationibus to that now itstew of a Wood rather than of a Stra^,such is the wonderful Change of all things ^In the time of King Henry the First PEngland there happened a mighty sounds 1on in Flanders, whereby a great part of d JCountry was irrecoverably lost, and m 311 ^of the poor distrusted People, being bereft 0their Habitation, came int 0 England; wh c