288 0 /the Dijsoltition

in the ordinary course of Nature, by the^

of Harts',

sual Weather is effected in manyyears.

r. By reason of the abundancethus waihed off the Mountains bRain,, and carried down with thethe Sea; about the out-Iets of the Riv® 'where the violent Motion of the Water ^les, fetling to the bottom, and raising it Jby degrees above the Surface of theW^ ’the Land continually gains upon, and dr 1 'back the Sea: The Egyptian Pharos or US jhouse of old time stood in an Island adistance from Land, which is now joynedthe Continent, the interjacent Fretum ha vl 0been filled up by the Silt brought down \the River Nilus in the time of the Flosubsiding there. Indeed the ancient H>‘briins do truly make the whole Land of, jgypt to have been Stigov volx/tS , the Giftthe River, and by this means gainedthe Sea. Seneca in the sixth Book ofNat. Quest. chap. 2.6. gives this accoii'yÆgyptus ex limo tot a concrevit. Tanturn(st Homer0 fides ) aherat a continenti Fh#quantum navis diurno xnrfu metir 't plenU avelis potest. Seel continenti admota jTurhidus enim defluens Nilus , multutnp^'^cum limum trahens, & eum suhinde a PP 0>i ^priorilus terris } Ægjptum annuo incre^