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Three physico-theological discourses : concerning I. the primitive chaos and creation of the world. II. the general deluge, its causes and effects. III. the dissolution of the world, and future conflagration ... / by John Ray
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Consequences of the Deluge.

^ lc King in compassion of their Condition,n d also considering that they might be be-Uncial to his Subjects, by instructing them^ the Art of Clothing, first; placed them a-°tit Carlisle in the North , and after remo-0^" them into South-Wales , where their Po-e" lt y hath ever since remained,p *n the Year 144 6. there perished 10000^ e °ple by the breaking in of the Sea at Dor-*Scht in Holland, and thereabouts; and aboutH Uart in Friejland, and in Zealand, above,°Oooo were lost, and two or three hun-ted Villages drowned, some of their Stee-j es and Towers, when the Tide is out, stilla Ppearing above water.

Mr. Carew of Antony in his Survey ofCor *r»a {, affirmeth, That the Sea hath ra-e ned from that Shire the whole County of^onest. And that such a County there was^ v 'ery sufficiently proves by many strongc afons. Camden in ilis Britannia reportss .^°f ancient Records, That upon the Ken -^ Coast, not far from Thanet, is a sandy^' a 6erous place, (which the Inhabitants callf°di V yn S . Sands ) where an Island (being the^ttniony of Earl Goodwyn) was swallowedl* n the Year 1097.

e ^stut the greatest Change of this kind th. ter Was made (if it be true ) was the ful>Cl 'sion of the vast Island of Atlantis, where-' Ve have already spoken. N As