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PIMINU- too far, fo it has happened in this particular inilance. One of 



the hiflofians of that kingdom, Mr.. Dal in, pretends that the 



TION OF 

 THE SEA. 



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ocean falls 45 Swedifli inches = 37^ 3_^ Englifh inches in 100 

 years j, and confequently 0,45 = 0,37 in one year:, and by this 



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means proves when Sweden firft became^ habitable, which he 

 immediately confiders, as the timewhen it was. actually lnhabited. 

 There are others who have oppofed this very opinion; fo that it feems 

 by no means, to be a point as yet decided ; nor is it yet, as far 

 as I am able to jiidge, a proper time to decide the queflion: we are 

 iirfl to coU'ecfl a great many fails, and by no means to form fyftems 



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from a few particulars, which perhaps may be proved to arife from 

 other caufes, than the re ceffion of the fea j and if in one place, the 

 fea uncovers fome ground,, we. ought likewife as carefully and 

 faithfully to record the places where the fea has made encroachments 

 upon the land; whichj if rightly compared, might fhew, thafc 



what in one place is gained, is lofl in' another. Nor do thefe 



gentlemen confider, that, ihould the ocean decreafe, nothing but 

 the aqueous particles Vv^ould naturally be dimin idled, and the faline, 



as fixed particles would remain,, v/hich of courfe mufl; constantly 

 increafe the faltnefs of the ocean ;, and fuch fifli and fubmarine 

 animals as can now fubfifl in the ocean, would, in courfe of time, 

 find themfelves in an element by no means fuited to their life and 

 neceffities : nay, as their organs for fwimming are by no means 



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