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the Sea lifeth 18 foot perpendicular,thc rea''" 
fon of this great flow of waters I refer to the 
learned,oneIy by theway Ifliall acquaint you 
with two teafons for the ebbing and flow* 
ing of iheSea y the one delivered in Cona- 
mon conference , th€ other in aSernaonat 
Bofton in the Majfachufets-Bay by an eminent 
man i The fir ft was, that God and bis ffirit 
moving upon the waters caufed the motions 
the oxhct^ihat the fpiritofthe waters gdihmd 
the waters together 9 as the ffirit of Cbriji 
Slathered Souls* 
The fhore is Rockie, with high cliffs'^ 
having a muhitude of confiderablc Har- 
bours i many of which are capacious 
enough for a Navy of 500 fail, one of a 
thoufand, the Countrie within Rockie and 
niountanious, full of tali wood, one fiatcly 
mountain there is furmounting the reft, a- 
bout four fcore mile from the S:a : The 
dcfcription of it you have in my raiities of 
New-England^ between the mourtiinsare 
many ample rich and pregnant valleys as 
ever eye beheld, befcC on each fide with va- 
riety of goodly Ttees, the grafs man-high 
unmowed, uneaten and ufekfly withering v 
within the fe valleys arc fpacious lakes or 
ponds well ftored with Fifh and Beavcrsj tbc 
originaiof all the great Rivers in the Couia- 
cric, of which there are many with klTet 
ftrearns 
