of the World.

A f r y great depth, which we find to be buta Uow. Nor do I think, that so much ase Trunks of falsa Trees, are by this meansQ ° v ered ; but rather, that they sink by theirH'n weight, in time overcoming the rcsist-^Ce of the Earth, which without much dif-^ty yields, being (baked and soitned by,e Hains insinuating into it, and keeping it^tinually moist m Winter-time. But ifp e Buildings be situate in Valleys, it isA that the Earth brought down from thefountains by Rain, may serve to land them^ Again, the Superficies of the EarthH be raised near the Sea Coast, by the^tinual blowing up of Sand by the Winds.

happens often in Norfolk, and in Corn-**//, where I observed a fair Church,idz. that? the Parish plied Lalant , which is the>y Q ther Church to St. Ives, and above tw o'yles distant from the Sea, almost covered. Vlt h the Sand ; ,little being extant above it,the Steeple and Ridge of the Roof. Nay,^teat part of Stives itself lies buried inÆSand : and I was told there, that in oneP§ht there had been a whole Street of Hou-si) covered with Sand, that in the Morn-[fg they were fain to dig their way out of.pir Hojfrse^through it. Ail along the We-pn ^hoap o[Wales, there are great Hills of'^5nd thus blown up by the Wind. We ob-served