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knotty Point is propofed to be unravelled, and 

 difcovered by the help of a fubterraneous either 

 Fire or Air, I think a man of penetration, and fo- 

 lid judgment, might eafily raife fuch flrong Ob- 

 jedions againll both, as would render it difficult 

 to get over them. 



6. This brings to my mind,That in the Spring 

 of the year 1 700, 1 fet fail from Yarmouth in Nor- 

 folk towards Narva in Livonia^ one of the fineft 

 Provinces then, on the South- fide of the Balticky 

 which belonged to the Crown of Siveeden 5 and 

 the firfl place we touched at was Elfmore upon 

 the Ifle of Zeeland in De?iJjiark^ where I faw no- 

 thing remarkable, in our two days flay, befides a 

 In.rge Caftle which they aflured us, commanded 

 the entrance into the Baltick Sea, and had in it 

 one particular peice of Cannon fo long and well 

 made, that it would throw a Ball acrofs the Sound 

 into Sckonm on the SweediJIo Side : The latter af- 

 fertion may poffibly be true 5 but about a month 

 after we left it, a Squadron of only eighteen E?2g- 

 iijlj Men of War demonftrated the former to be 

 falfe, by firing each a Broad-lide at it as they 

 paffed along by, to the great terrour and aftoniih- 

 ment of its Garrifon, as well as the Inhabitants qf 

 Elfmore, I faw a Regiment of Foot drawn up, 

 and reviewed there ; they were tall and large-bo- 

 died, and red-headed to a man, as mofl People of 

 North Germany are, eipecially in tlie lail point. 



7. The 



