66 LETTER II. 



ftone, which being overheated are the certain 

 Caufes of thefe Earthquakes and Eruptions ; and 

 likewife. That they very rarely meet with above 

 fixty fathoms of Water between any of them : 

 But to be plain and ferious,This is a meer whim- 

 lical Chimaera -, and they may as well affert they 

 are perfeftly acquainted with the ftate of I'erra 

 Aujiralis incognita which no one ever yet law. 

 Mr. T'yrrel and other Authors of good note, have 

 fuggefted, that £;/g-Z^;;^ was once joyned to France^ 

 and of courfe made part of the Continent : But 

 alafs ! I cannot credit their Conjecture ; for I 

 fancy, that the Straits between Calais and Dover 

 were juft as wide in ^Julius Cafar'^ days as they 

 are now y and as for their ftate before that fa- 

 mous Epocha, I prefume it may not be thorough- 

 ly known. Mr. Ho^vel (who wrote before Mr. 

 T'yrreT) in his Familiar Letters, pag. 364, is of 

 that opinion. 



44. Asthelfland oi Nevis lies in the lixteenth 

 Degree of Nothern Latitude, fo you muft of 

 courfe conclude, that twice in the year our Body 

 ca^ caft no Shadow at Noon, viz, when the Sun 

 is right over our heads, either in going North- 

 wards for the Tropick of Cancer ^ or in travelling 

 down back again Southwards towards the Equi-^ 

 nodial Line. 



45. The heat of the Country makes us per- 

 fpire mightily^ we are rarely coftive; Water 



Melons 



