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1106. Old Malamocco, then a very considerable city on the lakes of Venice, 

 was swallowed up by the sea. 



1218. A great inundation formed the gulf of Jahde, so named from the little 

 river which watered the fertile country destroyed by this catastrophe. 



1219, 1220, 1221, 1246, and 1251. Terrible hurricanes separated from the 

 continent the present isle of Wieringen, and prepared the rupture of the isthmus 

 which united northern Holland to the county of Staveren, in modern Friesland. 



1277, 1278, 1280, 1287. Inundations overwhelmed the fertile canton of Reider- 

 land, destroyed the city of Torum, 50 towns, villages, and monasteries, and form- 

 ed the Dollart ; the Tiam and the Eche, which watered this little country, disap> 

 peared. 



1282. Violent storms burst the isthmus which joined Northern Holland to 

 Friesland, and formed the Zuyderzee. 



1240. An irruption of the sea changed considerably the west coast of Schles- 

 wig ; many fertile districts were engulphed, and the arm of the sea which sepa- 

 rates the isle of Nordstrand from the continent was much enlarged. 



1300, 1500, 1649. Violent storms raised three-fourths of the island of He- 

 ligoland. 



1300. In this year, according to Fortis, the town of Ciparum, in Istria, was 

 destroyed by the sea. 



1303. According to Kant, the sea raised a great part of the island of Rugen, 

 and swallowed up many villages on the coasts of Pomerania. 



1337. An inundation carried away 14 villages in the island of Kadzand, in 

 Zealand. 



1421. An inundation covered the Bergseweld, destroyed 22 villages, and 

 Formed the Biesbosch, which extends from Gertruydenberg to the island of Dor- 

 drecht. 



1475. The sea carried away a considerable tract of land situated at the mouth 

 of the Humber ; many villages were destroyed. 



1510. The Baltic Sea forced the opening at Frisch-HafF, near Pillau, about 

 3600 yards broad, and 12 to 15 fathoms deep. 



1530 — 1532. The sea engulphed the town of Kortgene in the island of North 



Beveland, in Zealand. In the latter year, it also raised the E. part of the isle 



of S. Beveland, with many villages, and the towns of Borselen and Remerswalde. 



1570. A violent tempest carried off half of the village of Scheveningen, N.E. 



of the Hague. 



1625. The sea detached a part of the peninsula of Dars, in Pomerania, and 

 formed the isle of Zingst, N. of Barth. 



1634. An irruption of the sea submerged the whole island of Nordstrand ; 

 1338 houses, churches, and towns were destroyed ; 6408 persons and 50,000 head 

 of cattle perished. There only remained of this island, previously so fertile and 

 flourishing, three small islets named Pelworm, Nordstrand, and Liitje-Moor. 



1703 — I74G. In this period, the sea raised the island of Kadzand more than 

 100 fathoms from its dikes. 



1726. A violent tempest changed the saline of Arraya, in the province of 

 Cumana, part of Colombia, into a gulf of many leagues in width. 



1770 — 1785. Storms and currents hollowed out a canal between the high and 

 low parts of the island of Heligoland, and transformed this island, so extensive 

 before the 8th century, into two little isles. 



1784. A violent tempest formed, according to M. HofF, the lake of Aboukir, 

 in Lower Egypt. 



1791 — 1793. New erruptions of the sea destroyed the dikes and carried away 

 other parts of the island of Nordstrand, already so much reduced. 



1803. The sea carried away the ruins of the Priory of Crail, in Scotland. 



Bull, des Set. Nat. Jan. 1830. 

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