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Consequences of the Deluge*

and Villages. They are also a concurredcause of those huge Banks and ShelvesSand that are so dangerous to Mariners, soubar up Havens, and ruin Port-Towns$ 0which many Instances might be given.

I find in Dr. Hakewil’s Apology , a st° r /or two shewing the great force and strengthof Winds,* the one taken out of BellarmW sBook De afienfu mentis in Deum perscal.crgrad. %. Vidi ego (faith the Cardinal) 0 ^nifi vidiffem non crederem , a vehementfft^vento effbjfam ingentem terras molem ,delatam super pagum quendam ut fovea alts.finta conspiceretur , unde terra er ut a fuerat,pagus totus coopertus , (£> quaf fepultussent, ad quern terra ilia devenerat: I e-my self have seen, which if I had not & 6!t ’I should not have believed, a veryquantity of Earth, digged out and taken ^by the force of a strong Wind, and carfrup a Village thereby, so that there rem^i'ed to be teen a great empty hollowsin the place from whence it was listed*and the Village upon which it lightedin a manner all covered over and buried 1it.

The other out of Stow , who repotsThat in the Year 1095’. during the H el ^of King William Rufus, there happened *London an outragious Wind,which bore d^