Part L of the Earth. 45 



it felf to new Quarters : this change be* 

 ing occafion'd by fbme accidental Emo- 

 tion or Tranfpofition of the common 

 Center of Gravity in the Terraqueous 

 Globe ; and thereupon the Fluids of it, 

 the Sea, and the reft, immediately 

 fliifting likewife, as being the more 

 ealily moveable parts of the Mafs, 

 &nd coming to ^noihtx jEquilibrmm:^ 

 that they might thereby the better ac- 

 commodate themfelves to their new 

 Center. As others. 



That they were not left upon the 7, 

 Seas being protruded forwards, and 

 conftrained to fall off froni certain 

 Coafts, which it formerly poffeffcd, 

 by the Mud or Earth which is dilchar- 

 ged into it by Rivers ; the laid Mud 

 being repofed along the Shores near 

 the OBia of thole Rivers, and by that 

 ^means making continual Additions to 

 the Land, thereby excluding the Sea, 

 (laily invading and gaining upon it, 

 and preferving thefe Shells as Trophies 

 and Signs of its new Acquefts and En- 

 croachments 5 which others have ima- 

 gined : they concluding that the Iflands 

 Echimdes^ the Lower Egypt ^ Jheffaly^ 

 and many other Countries, were thus 

 railed out of the Mud brought down ^ 



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