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Miies up into the Country^ and there 

 fuooiog them a-ground : ftraoding 

 Whaies iikewife, and other great Filh* 

 es^ and leaving them^ at its Return^ 

 upon dry Land. 



That thefe FhceBomem are not new, 

 or peculiar to the Earthquakes which 

 liave happened in our times^ but have 

 been oblerved in all ^ges^ and parti- 

 cularly thefe exorbitant Conimotions 

 of the Water of the Globe. This we 

 may learn abundantly from the Hifto^ 

 ries of former Times : and ^twas for 

 this Reafbn that many of the Ancients 

 concluded, rightly enough, that they 

 were caufed by the Impulfes and Flu- 

 auation of Water in the Bowels of the 

 Earth ; and therefore they very fre« 

 quently called Neftum x^dx^m, as alio 



by all which Epithets they denoted his 

 Power of Shaking the Eartk They 

 foppofed that he prefided over all Wa^ 

 ter whatever, as v/ell that within the 

 Earthy as the Sea, and the reft upoo 

 it : and that the Earth was fupported 

 by Water, its Foundations being laid 

 thereon ; on vv^hich account it was that 

 they bellowed upon him the Cogno- 

 men Tca'i^2&j or S^if porter of the EmK 



