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417 



ftaiices ii 

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Pacific Ocean 

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a computation. 



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jnt the progrefs of filling up is 

 to every attentive obferver ; and, though it may 

 not afcertain the meafure, it fufficiently declares 

 the reality of the operations, by which the wade 

 of the prefent continents is made fubfervient to 

 the formation of new land. 



371. Sand-banks, fuch as abound in the Ger- 

 man Ocean, to whatever they owe their origin, 

 are certainly modified, and their form determi- 

 tied, by the tides and currents. Without the ope- 

 ration of thefe laft, banks of loofe fand and mud 

 could hardly preferve their form, and remain 

 interfeded by many narrow channels. The for- 

 mation of the banks on the coaft of Holland 



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even of the Dogger Bank itfelf, has been 

 afcribed to the meeting of tides, by which a ftate 

 of tranquillity is produced in the waters, and of 



fequence a more cop 



depolition of 



mud 



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great bank of Newfoundland 



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* Peroufe, in failing along the coall of China, from 

 Formofa to the llralt between Corea and Japan, thouo-h 



from 



ings at the depth of forty five 



etimes 



at that of twenty-two. Atlas du Voyag 



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43 



