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ly quite overflowed by the fea. They like- 

 wife knew, that at a great depth in the 

 ground, fuch a trowel as the Indians make 

 ufe of, had been found. 



SvEN Lock, and William Cobby both 

 above fifty years of age agreed, that in 

 many places hereabouts, where wells had 

 been dug, they had feen a great quantity of 

 reed, moftly rotten, at the depth of twenty 

 or thirty feet and upwards. 



As Cobb made a well for himfelf, the 

 workmen after digging twenty feet deep, j 

 came upon fo thick a branch, that they 

 could not get forwards, till it was cut in 

 two places -, the wood was ftill very hard. 1 

 It is very common to find near the furface 1 

 of the earth, quantities of all forts of leaves 

 not quite putrified. On making a dyke 

 fome years ago, along the river on which 

 the church at Raccoon ftands , and for that 

 purpofe cutting through a bank, it was 

 found quite full of oyfterfhells, though this 

 place is above a hundred and twenty Englifli 

 miles from the neareft fea fhore. Thefe 

 men, and all the inhabitants of Raccoon, 

 concluded from this circumftance (of their 

 own accord, and without being led to the 

 thought) that this tradt of land was a part 

 of the fea many centuries ago. They like- 

 wife afferted that many little lakes, which 



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