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and dryed up by the Sun, the Land 

 thereby laid bare , and thefe Shells 

 brought to light. But if 'twas in any 

 part of the Continent where they 

 found the Shells, they concluded that 

 the Sea had been extruded and driven 

 off by the Mud that was continually 

 brought down by the Rivers of thole 

 parts. 



That I may not be over-tedious here^ 

 I will only add, that I fliall clearly 

 {hew, from plain Paffages of their own 

 Writings yet extant, that 'twas meerly 

 the finding thefe Sea-fhells at Land 

 that occafioned this Stir, and railed 

 all this Duft amongft the Ancients ; 

 and upon which principally they 

 grounded their Belief of the VicilTi- 

 tudes and Changes of Sea and Land, 

 wherewith their Writings are fb filled. 

 But how little reafbn they had for it : 

 and how far thofe have been over-feen 

 who have followed them herein, hath 

 been intimated already, and will appear 

 farther from the following part of this 

 Eflay , to the Account of which I now 

 haften. 



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