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occasioned, as you see, from luxuriant tides, and 

 aggravating winds, that violently contract the 

 surff of the sea, and so amalgamizes them to- 

 gether, that neither the one nor the other can 

 divide, nor expatiate it self, till inevitably suck'd 

 up into the bowels of the ocean. 



Theoph. I fancy this Hellespont of Pontus 

 Cambrosia, a representation of the chalky mount 

 in Barbardoes ; because of its polished glittering 

 whiteness. 



Am. I remember as we pass'd this hazardous 

 Charibdis, the vessel that conveyed us was in 

 danger to overset, by reason the porposses vent- 

 ed so vehemently at the stem of our boat, inso- 

 much that one of them had almost invented his 

 passage amongst us ; which if he had, there was 

 no way but one ; and that way was unequal to 

 exchange of elements. But at last we conclu- 

 ded if the boat should miscarry, to lanch forth 

 into the deeps, and Hero it over. 



Theoph. Some then, I fancy, would have made 

 brave ducks and drakes. 



Am. It's no matter for that, the use of blad- 

 ders had been out of fashion. Now, no sooner 

 we arrived at the desired shore, but with friend- 

 ly congratulations we saluted one another ; dis- 

 coursing our hazardous passage, and this plea- 

 sant country (or isthmus of land) besieged with 



