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charge itfelf. Which, in procefs of time, being fiRed up § 
f partly by the Earth, Sand, Oafe, or other matter brought 
in by the Sea, and lodged there ^ partly by the Earth wafh- 
ed down, or falling upon it, from the HiHs on both fides 5) 
is reduced to the Stone vve'now fee.' '^^ - ;. - ' « 
I do not think it necefiary to repe^t^t !^'rge%hni" heai^ 
Icdgeth to this purpofe, (bec^i>fe faOaf&ly'^iritfed ki y^^^ 
Tranfaftions : ) But think it not amifr, to enforce his Ar- 
gument, by confidering, what muft have been if this Hy 
pciheiisbe true 5 and how it agrees with what we fee. • 
We muft firft confider, That, ^i^ ^Ifihmus had 
once been, where now fs the Pafi between D^t^er apd Ca- 
latsi the Great Seas, on both fides, muft continually beat 
upon it, with a fierce impetuous Tyde, twice; in four and 
twenty hours. The Northern Sea, between us and Holland 
(called Oceanus Gtrmankns j on the Eajiem fide : And, the 
V/eftern Sea, betvveen us and France, ( c^M^ Oceanuf Bri- 
tannicns) on the Wtft?rn fide. Which (in procefs of timej 
may well be fuppofed likely enough to H^ear away, or 
break through a narrow Iflhmus, 
The Wejiern Tyde coming in fiercely between us and 
France, fretting on the Coaft on both fides, muft needs be 
foppofed to bring, with it a great- deal of Earth, Sand, or 
Mud. But, being ftopjxd in its- Current by this IJlhmis, 
did not depofit it (as might be dioughtj on the fide of it, 
f which might ftrengthen it,^ but found an opportunity of 
difcharging itfelf on the fpacioos Level of Ron/ney-^vhrih 
(which, as Camden tells usj is I'ouneen Miles in Lengthy and 
Eight in Breadth 5 ) fretting that Ifthmns it comes aiong: 
and then (at ftanding Water, about the Tydes recefs,) let- 
ring it fall on that Level, and lodging it there : But then 
again, fretting that ^^/6/?////, and the Coaft all along, as the 
Tyde returns, with a like force as it came irr. Which gives 
us a fair account, both how that Idhmui might be wa(hed 
away 5 and how that Level might be raifed to that height 
it now is. For no man can ddubt ("who doth well know 
the Situation of the Place, and -he Nature of the Soil) but 
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