ty8 Consequences of the Deluge.

As for the Changes that have been madeby undermining and wasliing away tlieshores, they have been partly the diminish'ing of the Land, and partly the raising U Pof several Islands not far from the shores,the Baltick Sea hath invaded the shoresPomerania, and destroyed a famous Ma* 1 'town called Vineta. So the ancient Voroug"of Dommch in Suffolk is almost quite eal^away and ruined by the Encroachments &the Sea. And it is said that the Ocean had 1cut off twenty Miles from the North padof the Island of Ceylatt in India ; so that itmuch less at this day than formerly itAnd many the like Examples there are.for the raising up of Islands near the shod’very likely it is that the Sea continual!;preying upon the shore, and washing aW^abundance of Earth from thence, cannot ca 1 'ry it far to any great distance from t^shores, but lets it fall by little -and little $their Neighbourhood : which subsiding °lsettling continually for some Ages, at h*the heaps ascend up to the very Superfi ctlof the Water, and become Islands. H& cin the middle of the Ocean, there are d?Islands, or but a very lew, because th 0 *®parts are too remote from the shores for ajvEarth \vafhed from thence to be carried tdther j and if it were, yet the Sea thereat*^