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I nec u/la intervalla in se habet ; fed cre-ss * H Jolidum arescente limo i quo prejfi er at^ ce dens ftruthra, &c. that is, all Egypt isJ 11 'a Concretion of Mud. For (//'Homerfy &e believed) the Pharos was as far di-f nt from the Continent , as a Ship with full. " could run in a days time; hut now it is^f e d to it. For NiJus flowing with troubledfl tey s brings down a great deal of Mud and. and adding it to the old Land,

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nl rSypt further and further still by an annu-fncreaje. Flence it is of a fat and muddyf f and hath no pores or cavities in it. Andf s Reason he gives why it is not troubled withf r thquakes. W hich also may be the Rca-f Why it hath no fresh Springs and Foun-f ls : For though indeed Dr. Robinson doths er y probably impute its want of Rain andPrings to the want of Mountains ,* yet be-f fe (as we shall afterwards prove) Springsbe derived from Mountains at a goodbailee, l know not whether all Mountainse so far remote from Egypt , as that therefy be no subterraneous Channels of thatf 8th as to derive the Water even thitherf l P them ; and therefore probably onejfldn of their wanting of Springs may bef density and thickness of the Soil, where-^ it becomes impenetrable to the Water ;

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