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Antoninus Itinerary and elfewhere. Nov/ fas was hinted 
e're whilej elder Records either of Kent, or oi Britain that 
we m^y confide in as Authentick, we have none that 1 
knov/ of before the Romans time : no writren credible evi_«* 
dences to help us in this fcratiny. We muft therefore ei- 
ther fit us down, and reft contented to throw off all fur- 
ther enquiry, c^r elfe caft about for information as v/e can. 
Such as are for this latter will tell you, that the world (all 
know) is very aged, many thotifand years old, and that 
many and manifold are thealre'rations, ciiarges and muta- 
tionSj which time hath nrtde in feveral parts and quarters 
of the world, tc tiie noiice' and dilcovery whereof no 
written Record, or unwritten Tradition at this day, can 
reach or dired us : Traditjon it felf (longer liv'd many 
times than any written evidence ) failing us for age. Of 
fucb a nature they conceive n/ay this of the lEfiuarj be, 
fo very ancient, as time hail; quite worn out the memory 
of it 5 withdrawn all light from us, that might conduft 
us in the fcriitiny, and left us as men in the dark, without 
either void or vejligiim to ftumbleout our way, and rome 
and ramble at uncertainties. Such a one happily Qiall he 
fee thought, that adventuring to conjefture at the reafon 
and occafion of the Seas reccfs here, with an abfolute vale* 
diction to the place of its v/onted refort, (hall pitch upon 
the Seas breaking, burfting and cleaving afunder that Ijih- 
njus, or neck of Land, between GauHvA Britain, rendring 
the latter of the fame Continent with the former, fuch 
things C'tis certain J have hapned elfewhere. Thus (faith 
Seneca^ hath the Sea rent Spain from the Continent of A- 
frick' Thus (as he adds^ by Deucalion s flood, was Sicily 
cut from. Italy, More inftances of this kind may be found 
in Mr Camhdens Cantinm^ and elfeu here. And although 
there be no certain evidence of fuch an accident here from 
anrTc nt either Hifiorians or /Geographers 5 yet is the thing 
fo ifronglyand rationally argued, by him efpecially, ashy 
Verftegan alfo, Twine and others before him^ and the con- 
jefture 
