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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



ent fa6ls, I fhould be tempted to think, that 

 the foreft which once covered Lincolnfhire, was 

 immerfed under the fea by the fubiidence of 



the land to a g 



depth, and at a period 



liderably remote ; that when fo immerfed, it was 

 covered over with the bed of clay which now 



r 



lies on it, by depofition from the fea, and the 



that 



wafhing down of earth from the land ; 

 has emerged from this great depth till a part of 



: but that it is now fink- 



has became dry land 



g agai 



f the trad 



f th 



ntry de 



ferves any credit, that the part of it in the fea 



is deeper under 



at prefent th 



few years ago. This might alfo ferve to recon 

 cile, in fome meafure, the phenomena of this fub 

 marine foreft with the appearances which indi 



cate an e 

 Lincolnfli 



fLtenfJon of the land on the coaft of 

 re. Indeed the extenlion of the land 

 is no dired proof, either of its own elevation, or 

 of the depreffion of the fea, as we may conclude 

 from the inftance of Ravenna already mention- 



* 



ed. 



400. We have concluded from the fa6ts ftated 



above, that the level of the fea rifes 



in 



the 



Med 



and finks 



the more north 



latitudes : and thence fome have fufpeded, that 

 the level of the fea had in general a tenden- 

 cy to rife towards the equator, and to fink to- 



wards 



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