Of the Dissolution

some fay Three hundred,have been drownsby the encroachments of the Sea, as some &their Towers and Steeples still extant aboVthe Waters do testifie. On the Tuscan fh° re ’Kircher tells us, That not far fromhe himself had observed a whole City uf 1 ^Water, that had been in former tifl^drown’d by the Inundation of the Sea. ^over against Voteoli in the Sinus of Baia , 11tells us, That in the bottom of the Sea,tl^are not only Houses, but the Traces ^Footsteps ot the Streets of some Citynifcstly diicernable. And in the CountsSuffolk , almost the whole Town ofwich j with the adjacent Lands, hathundermined and devoured by the Sea. . jThis walhing away of the Shores JS ^conceive, in great mealure to be attrib uteto the lorementioned streightning and CLting (hortof the Sea, by the Earth and ^that in the times of Floods are browdown into it by the Rivers. For the Vul§.have a Proverbial Tradition, That what jSea loses in one place , it gains in an^'-Ant! both together do very handfomly ^ jout and explain, how the Earth in a na^ ^way, mav be reduced to its primitivein the Creation, when the Waters coV^Ctire Land. But this according to thesurely proceedings of Nature, w ould ^

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