Consequences of the Deluge .

the Island by parts, till the Earth opening ^the Fidd Lelantus vomited out of a River orfiery Clay.

The (ame St raio tells us, That Democlesmentions huge Earthquakes of old in Lydi aand Ionia , extending as far as7mzgby whichmany Villages were swallowed up, and Siftlus overthrown when Tantalus reigned, andgreat Lakes made of Fens.

And that Duris faith, That the RhagadeSIslands by Media were so called from theLands about the Cafpiæ Portœ being torn andbroken by Earthquakes, so that many Citiesand Villages were overthrown , and severalRivers received alterations.

And Demetrius Calatianus relating th sEarthquakes that happened throughout ;Greece , writes. That a great part of the Li' jchades Islands and Census had been drowned >thereby ; and that the hot Baths at Ædef'fus and in Thermophylœ , having been flopsfor three days, slowed again, and thoseÆdepsus from new Sources. That the Wajj jof Oreus on the Sea-fide, and seven hundredHouses, were thrown down ; and a greatpart of Echinus and Hcraclea Trachinia; butthe whole building of Thalarnus was over-turned from the very Soil or Plain of it,'the like happened to the Larians and Larij'Leans ; and that Scarphia was utterly de-molish?