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INROADS OF SKA IN NORTH AMERICA. 



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that during a high, tide, the ocean rose upon this coast so 

 rapidly , that men on horseback were scarcely able to escape.* 

 Floras, alluding to the same tradition, says, ' The Cumbrians, 



limit 



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hen the ocean had overflowed their territory, were lookin 



out in 



t This 



event commonly called the ' Cimbrian Deluge/ is supposed to 

 have happened about three centuries before the Christian 



but it is not improbable that the principal catastrophe 



era; 



many 



experienced in modern times on the islands and shores of 

 Jutland, and such calamities may well be conceived to have 

 forced on the migration of some maritime tribes. 



Inroads of the sea on the eastern shores of North America. — 

 After so many authentic details respecting the destruction 

 of the coast in parts of Europe best known, it will be un- 



necessary 



to m 



examples of 



analogous changes in 



more distant regions of the world. It must not, however, 

 be imagined that our own seas form any exception to the 

 general rule. Thus, for example, if we pass over to the 



America, where the tides rise, in the 



eastern coast of North America, where 

 Bay of Fundy, to a great elevation, we find many facts at- 

 testing the incessant demolition of land. Cliffs, often several 



, and 



numerous estu- 



hundred feet high, composed of 



mar 



aries, are perpetually undermined. The ruins of these cliffs 

 are gradually carried, in the form of mud, sand, and large 

 boulders, into the Atlantic by powerful currents, aided at 

 certain seasons by drift ice, which forms along the coast, and 

 freezes round large stones. 



May 



oachment 



observations made consecutively for sixteen years, from 1804 

 to 1820, to average about nine feet a year ; t and at Sullivan's 

 Island, which lies on the north side of the entrance of the 

 harbour of Charlestown, in South Carolina, the sea carried 



eorum inundasset Occanus, novas sedes 

 toto orbe quserebant.' — Lib. iii. cap 3. 

 t New Monthly Mag. vol. vi. p. 69. 



* Book vii. Cimbri. 



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t ' Cimbri, Teutoni, atque Tigurini, 



al> extremis Galliie profugi, cum terras 



