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had not found thoTe In-draughts, on which to lodge what 
it wa(hed from thencej might have continued, and been 
more ftrengihen'd, by what (upon the return of the Tyde) 
would daily be lodged there. 
And upon this account (I think) it is, that the IJlhmHs dit 
CmW^, though beat upon by the two Seas f which give 
it the name of Bif^aris CorlnthHs) is not thereby deftroyed : 
becaufe there are not fuch Tydes ro wafti it away 5 nor fuch 
In- draughts, on which to lodge what (hould be walhed 
from thence. 
But the cafe is much otherwife with this Ijlhmusoi ours. 
Where are all things to countenance this Hypothejis, The 
fteep CHfts Dover, and thofe at Calais^ anfwering direft- 
ly the one to the other 3 and appearing to view, as if, that 
between them, had been violently torn away. And the 
Sea between them (even at this day) being much (hillow- 
er at that place than on either fide of it (as Camden doth 
well obfervej which are ftrong Prefumptions, mat there 
had been formerly fuch a conjunftion. 
The gfeateft doubt in this cafe is, that there is noHiftory 
extant (that I knowj which takes notice ot fuch an Ifih- 
^nms^ or fuch a Ruptnre^ in this place, which being a thing 
remarkable,might have been thought worthy to be reported. 
Which yet need not be thought veryftrange, confidering 
that we have no particular account of the .Br/>//& Coaft- 
(which might determine this Queftion) older than the Ra- 
mans accefs hither with JhUhs Cdefar : Whereas this might 
have happened many hundreds of years before that time, 
when though the Ifland might be known, yet not the par- 
ticular Coaftings of it to the Greeks or Latws, 
But I have this further to fay. Plato ttWs us a ftory (as of a 
thing which liad happened fome Ages befoi'e his tiaie, and 
which at that time was in a manner generally forgotten) ot 
anifland fome where in thei4^/iiw^/V>^Ocean. which by aDeluge 
and Earthquake(in the fpace of a night and day) was dellroy- 
ed and fwallowed up by the Sea 3 whereby that Sea (former- 
