ua worthy i teimid, jadidam, fabtr md^mk^fi mi 
were I as much concerned, and as well inftrufted there as 
here, I (hould not know how to purge myfeltofnegli- 
gerce, if I did not undertake it with the firft. 
4. To come at length to the fourth and laft of our 
Queries, by what means the Sea once having its play there 
C at Chart hamy this Creature comes to lye and be found fo 
deepin the ground^ and under fuch a (helving bank ? My 
anfwer is, that fuppofing this Vv^ith the reft pf the Level 
or Valley once occupied by thc^ea or Salt-water, that be- 
ing a Creature which by flaxes and refluxes alvvays is in 
motion, and thereby in time beating upon, and working 
itfelf into the bank, or rifing ground there, might at 
length fofar undermine, eat into, and loolen it, as to fetch 
down fo much Mould or Earth upon^ or over the place,as to 
lodge the Creature at fa great a depth. Or elfe perhaps, 
the continual agitation of the Water, might in time 
force, drive up, and caft over it, that great quantity of 
Gufe, Earth and other matter under which it lay. By 
the way, it is obferved that the nature of the Soil here 
and there, is fuch, fo loofe, fupple, rotten and fandy, 
that meerly of itfelf, it is apt to fink and fall in 5 as was 
lately experienced by a Saw-pit, digg'd hard by, which 
after a little time by the Earths giving way on each fide 
of it, fell ini and fiird up itfelf. 
Thus have you (gentle Keadhrs} our C/6^r^^^^^^ New,^ 
or difcoveries with the circumftances, and the ufe my lit- 
tle skill will ferve me ro make of them, in point either 
of Hiftory or Geography. Arcam they are, but whether 
fanti 5 whether I mean, grateful, or ufeful to the Publick, 
ia left to the Judicious Antiquaries, Naturalifts, who 
are defir^d to take the matter where the Hiftorian hath 
left it- It bath been the Finders care and good will, 
as to prefer ve, fo to expofe and communicate what he 
hath found : and if at length to this of the parts, and by 
them aiuU difcovery of the whole, by the skill and dex- 
terity; 
