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mad-, and to eflcreafe Hypochondriacal difeafes, and fo cook'd 
now, as if it wereto be trans'forirfd into a Caudle or Cuftard. 
A curious and exaff Relation 
of a Sand-floudj which hath lately overwhelmed a great trait tf 
Land in the County of Suffolk i together with an account of the 
Check in fart given to it Communicated in an obliging Letter 
to the Publifner, by that Worthy Gentleman Thomas Wright 
Epjuire, living upon the f lace ^ and a Offerer by that Deluge. 
SIR, 1 beg your pardon, that I have not made an earlier return 
to the Letter, by giving you the account, you required of 
thofe prodigious Sands , which I have the unhappinefs to beal- 
moft buried in, and by which a confiderable part of my fmall 
fortune is quite fwallow'd up. Eut I aflbre you, my filence was 
-not the refultof any negleft, but rather of my refpedis to you, 
whole employments I know are too great to fuffer you often^ va- 
cate nugis. The truth is, I fufpended the giving you any trouble, 
till I was put intofome capacity of anfwering the whole Letter, 
as well concerning thofe few Improvements, this part of the Na- 
tion has made in Agriculture^ thefe wonderful Sands, which al- 
though they inhabit with and upon me, and have not yet 
exceeded one Century^ fince they mil broke prifon, I could not 
without fome difficulty trace to their Original. But I now find 
it to be in a Warren in Lakenheath (a Town belonging to the 
Deanzni Chapter of Ely^ diftant not above 5 miles, 2nd lying 
South-weft md by J^/? of this place) where fome great Sand-hills 
(whereof there is ftill a remainder,) having the Superficies , or 
liyord of the ground (as we call it) broken by the impetuous 
South-weft winds, blew upon fome of the adjacent grounds which 
being -vskeh of the fame nature, and having nothing but a thin 
cruft of barren earth tofecure its good behaviou v , was foon rot- 
ted and <iiffolved by the other Sand P and thereby eafily fitted to 
in:reafe the Mafs, and to bear it company in this ftrange pro- 
g:efs. 
At the firft Eruption thereof (which does not much exceed the 
memories of fome perfons ftill living) I fuppofe, the whole Ma- 
gazin of Sand could not cover above 8. or 10 acres of ground, 
which increaPd into a xoco acres 7 before the Sand had 
travail'd 
