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that all that Level had heretofore been Sea, And, even at 
this day, it lies fo much lower than the Surface of the S<^a 
at High-vVater, that it would f much of it) be overflowed 
evexy Tyde, if not defended fat a vaft charge) by 
T>lM'chiiYch Wal), for many miles together, 
Whetlser it had a hke opportunity of fueh an In-draoght 
^(and in what proportion) on the French Coaft, 1 cannot 
teil, Butj that this is the condition of RomncyMarjh^ no 
man doubts. 
The Northern Sea, ( between us and HoILl^cI, ) muft, in 
like manner, have^ beat on the Edfpfide ot th:\t Ijihm;^, 
v/ith a like Impetuous Tyde, twice in four and twenty 
hours. But, bekig there flopped in itscourfe, would have 
the hke opportunity of difcharging itfelf on the Co<?ft of 
Holland, (as the Weftern Sea on Romfiey-M^^^i^^ Whence 
it is that Holland and Zealand^ v/hich (by the confent of 
all) is judged to have been once Sea, is now raifed, thirty 
or forty foot higher than it had once been. 
And the fame Northern Sea^ which (on this account) 
hath fo large an- In-let ( Eaftward) on the Goaft of HrA- 
land 5 would (WeftwardJ infinuate itfelf likewife on the 
■Englijh Coaft, where-ever it might find low grounds. 
Which is the cafe of this large Valley, where now runs 
the River Stnre^ Stoure^ or Efhre ^ (which name it is fup- 
pofed to have taken from the Corruption of JEftnarium : ) 
for more than twenty miles 5 (and nothing appears why 
we ftiould think it had not fo done^) entering at the low 
grounds near Sdndmch (clofe by that Ifihmus) and running 
up^that Lez;e/ (h^ Canterbury.^ Chartham^ Chilham, awd fo 
forth) as far as Jihford or further. Which Valley had 
once been much Deeper than no^^r it is. For, it feems, 
that even at Chartham (which is now tv/elve miles from 
the SeaJ the Ground is raifed at leaft fevenceen toor 5 and 
the Soil, at that depth, found to be of a like Gond;i:ion, 
as where the Sea is known to have been 5 And, nearer to 
the Sea, it may well be prefumed to have been yet Deeper. 
Which 
