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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



1762, (Lettre a M. le Comte de Buffori, &c 



P- 55-) *• 



riers 



390. The ftiores of the Low Countries, and of 

 Holland, have been often inftanced in proof of 

 the fame kind of changes, and it has been fup- 

 pofed, that, independently of thofe artificial bar- 



which at prefent exclude the waters of 

 the ocean from overflowing a great part of 

 this tracl, nature herfelf has brought it near- 

 er to the furface than it had formerly been. It 

 is indeed certain, that thofe countries, to a ve- 

 ry great extent inland, have either been un-* 

 der the fea at fome period, by no means re- 

 mote if compared with the great revolutions 



r 



of the globe, or that they are entirely alluvial, 

 and of the fame fort with the Deltas formed at 

 the mouths of rivers. The relative changes, 

 however, of the fea and land on this trad, have 

 been differently reprefented, and I am unwilling, 



on 



Wood 



miles from 



Crag-pits, in which prodigious quantities of fea-lliells 



are difcovered, many of them perfed an 



(Pennant's Ardic Zoology, Introd. p. 6 

 fliire affords various proofs of the fame kir 



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