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jedure back'd with fuch plenty and probable Criferk^ hf 
the former 5 that- what others may think I know not j but 
were I of the Jury, I (hould more than incline to concur 
with them, who find for the Iflhmus* Efpeciaiiy, whenta 
the plenty of Arguments muflered up by Mr Camkdm^l (liall 
have contributed this one, by him and the reft omitted^ 
which is, that by a received conftant Tradition, Kommp 
Marj\ that large and fpacious Level, containing (Taith Mr 
Cambden) 14 miles in length, and 8 in breadth, was fome* 
time Sea-]and,lying wholly under Salt- water, and is there- 
fore ot fome not improperly called, the Seas gift 5 which 
having when time was forfaken itand withdrawn hiswont- 
ed influence from it 5 the place thereupon become and con- 
tinues firm Land. And if I may guefsat the time and 
qccafion of both that, and our Cmterbnry Levels re- 
covery and riddance from Sea,- I fhall (iot my part 
with fubmifTion to better judgments) be apt to pitch 
upon that of the Seas breaking through, and in time ' 
working and waftiing away that Ifihrnus between Us 
and Prance. And then whereas beforetime Romney Le- 
vel f which had and hath its Stoures too, or JEjinaria as 
well as our3) and this other not improbably ("no highLands 
as we fee,interpofing for impeding their conjunAion) were 
but one and the fame Level,and lay under the Seas andSalt 
waters tyranny^now both the one and the other ("the Sea 
having fo much play and elbow room, than formerly by 
cleaving afunder the Ifihmus^ wererefcued from it, and of 
an JEjhary, became luch a rich and noble Valley or Le-^ 
vel, as is fecond to none (I take it J in England. 
I am refolved to keep home, ^nd conceive my felf no 
further concerned than in our own Level. But if from 
hence any other (hall take an hint to confider of the Ne- 
therla?tds or Low Countries^ and enquire whether thofe in 
whole, or in part, may have not arifen out of, and con- 
jedurally aCTigned for our KentijJ) Lowlands 5 I fhall not; 
at all wonder at it, thinking it (for my part^ a task x\oi 
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