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eth orl one fic3e it lofeth on the other- And that this 
level was fo made I am confirm'd by the modern re- 
moval of the Fort, moi.e toward? the point, more Sands, 
Ifonjefture, being add'ed after the old Fort waji built : 
This alteration is taken notice* of by the aforefaid Mr Tay- 
ler in fhele words5- And dtho fcvtral nox» liviftgfretend to 
ike remenfbrmce ^ftkc haiUh^ it 3 [^Landguard Fort*] yet 
"^e find there vp^4 an ancknter Fort thereabout and called by 
the jame name Anno 1553- 1 T^hich w^s not far diflant 
frem this modern one, a little North oj it, where are yet to be 
feentikw Faces and Flankers of ^feaftion-, the reft of it being 
- 'eaten away by the Sea^ hut in i^s place hath left upon theShoar 
a hngrdw of Sand Bankj. 
The Spring mentioned by the Ingenious Mr Edmund 
Gibfon in his EngUflj Edition of Cambden, from theaforc- 
faid Manufcript of Mr Silas Tayler^ is a very fmallincon- 
fiderable thing 3 nor could I obferve that it dfd petrifie 
or incruftate either pieces of Wood or Sticks, but I have 
a piece, which I broke off from a large Pile upon that 
Shear, v^hich was petrified fo far as it was droven into 
the Earthj, and the Sea Water came 5 and do fufpefl: there 
yet remains fome others of the fame. And of this fort I 
helieve^ ' is that large piece fent from hence, which Mr 
Tayler mentions to bcrefcrvedin the Repoftory of the Royal 
Society. 
I have already taken notice, that the Fojfil Shetls are 
imbedded in aloofe Stratum of Sand, Gravel, d^c. which 
may ferve to demonftrate that their Matrix is not a Clay 
bed upon the top of the Cliff 5 as likewife tor another Ar- 
gument to evince that they could not be there fcattered 
by Crovps^ GuUs^ and other Sea Fowls, as well as that fome 
of them are likewife bedded in Stone at the bottom of 
the ClifFj and alcho fome few of them m.ay be 'met 
with upon the top of the ChfF, yet it's only where the 
Earth has been broken by digging of Ditches^ ^c. 
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