-6 but 



,na ufed as 



- 



, o'cjpck we tided down 



Dover, %nd faw plainly the 



celebrated Cdindsn in his Britan- 



~ v/onhrmed, that here England had been for- 

 merly joined to France and Flanders by an ifth- 

 mus. Both iliores form here two oppofite points; 

 and both are formed of the fame chalk hills, 

 which have the fame configuration, fo that a 

 perfon acquainted with the Engliflj coafts and ap- 

 proaching thofe of Picardy afterwards, without 

 knowing them to be fuch, would certainly take 

 them to be the English ones.* 



Aug. gth 1 2th. WE tided and alternately 

 failed down the channel, and pafled Dungnefs, 

 Fairligbt, the IJle of Wight, P or tf mouth > the Pe- 

 ninfula of Portland and Bolthead, a point behind 

 which Plymouth lies ; during all which time we 

 had very little wind. 



* * The fame opinion has been confirmed by Mr, Bffon in hia 

 Hifl. Natvrelh* ' 



Aug. 



