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Earth would again be overflown with Wa-ters > as at first st was.

Reside these more eminent and remarka-, Changes, which in process of time, after! ^ ^°ng fucceflion of many Ages, threaten

onte great effect ; indeed no less then a re-action of the World to its primitive statectore the separation of the Land and Water.

* here have been many other fester mutati-Cns made either by Earthquakes and Eructa-b°ns of burning Mountains, or by greathods and Shots of Rain, or by violent orhrnpestuous Winds and Hurricans, some'''hereof are mentioned by Naturalists andhistorians, Stralo, Pliny, Seneca, Ovid, andI others.

For Earthquakes, Pojidmius, quoted by^f'alo, in his first Book, writes, That there; ^ as a City in Phœnicia , situate above Si don,

| sallowed up by an Earthquake, and that• . Oiost two thirds of Sidon it self fell therc-

; though not suddenly and all at once, so

hst there was no great destruction or flaugh-^ of men happened. The fame extendeda «nostover all Syria, though not violently,jfh reached as far as some of the Cyclades, ! hods; and Eulœa , where the Fountains of! ^ te thufa in Chalets were stopped up by it,

s at h after many days broke forth again ata °other source: neither did it cease to shake1 N 3 the