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the more remarkable inundations, with which the 
shores of England have been visited, I have found, 
in Radulfus’s ‘‘ Ymagines Historiarum,” a de- 
scription of one, which was particularly destructive 
at St. Ives, towards the end of the reign of king 
John. ‘* A sudden and unexpected inundation 
of waters,” says that writer, ‘“ took place in 
many parts of England, whence many men were 
drowned, and houses overturned, especially at 
Exeter and St. [ves.’’* 
The author of the ‘“‘ Guide to Mount’s Bay 
and the Land’s End’’} thus describes the district 
around Hayle. ‘“ The river Hayle takes its rise 
near Crowan, and falls into St. Ives’ Bay, although 
it arrives at the level of the sea three miles before 
it reaches the northern coast, and winds its way 
through an area of sand, nearly half a mile wide, 
and more than two miles long ; this sand, at high 
water, is generally submerged, so that the tra- 
veller who wishes to cross is obliged to take a 
* Subita et improvisa aquarum inundatio pluribus in locis 
per Angliam facta est, unde plures homines submersi sunt, et 
domus everse, maxime apud Excestre, et sanctum Ivonem.— 
Historie Anglicane Scriptores X, edente Rogero Twysden; 
1652, Fol. p. 710. 
T Pp. 158, 159. 
