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ly Navigable ) was for forae time become unnavigable or un- 
fafe, by reafon of the Mud and Reliques of that abforptcd.. 
liland. The words of P/i^^t? (as tranOated in Henry Ste^r 
fkens Edition, pag. 25.) runs thus 5 Pod autem^quum dilw 
marum terrae motuum intcmferks exthiffet^ Unius noclis ^ 
diei fpdtio, omne illud hellicoforum homi mm genus in terram 
ahforptum fmt^ illiaf^ etiam AtUntica InfuU Q hT> a.nU rlH^ai) 
Maris flHclibus, plane ohvoluta dijparuit^ nnde & illud ^are 
trajeSu difficile efl^ quum lutum adhnc copio pm InfnU ijiius 
remanjerit, v 
Which feems to me very applicable to the Rupture of 
this ^y^;^^/ : Whereby this Ifland was not indeed wholly 
deftroyed y but was broken off from the Continent, to 
which it was before united. And, upon fuch zn accident, 
the Sea mufl needs be difturbed, and put out of its courfe, 
and rendred unfafe for paflage, before it came again to be 
fettled. For, though the firft Breach might be made in the 
fpace of one 'Night and Day, we cannot fuppofe the whole 
Bulk of it, when once broken, was prefently carried 
fmooth away 5^ but firft the top or upperpart of it (in a 
Day and Nights time,) and afterwards the lower parts of it 
by degrees. Which would render that Sea, if not quite 
uripaiiable, at leaft troublefom and unlafe. ? ^ 
And if in fome circumftance^ this' Narration chance to 
differ from the matter of Faft, as calling the Rupture oi this 
Ifthmis^ ih^Subverfion of an Iflmd^ this muft bealloi^ed in 
the Narrative of an old Tradition from hand to hand» For 
as inch it is there brought in. 
For Flatodoth there introduce Critias fthen an Ancient 
man) telling a Story, which (when a Boy ten years old) he 
had terd from his Grandfather ("who was ninety years cf 
age) of what Solon (long (ince dead) had told him 5 name- 
ly, than an Mgyptian Prieft had (long before) ic\(i Solon, 
that it did appear from fome old Mgyptian Records (of 
which the Greeks had no knowledge) that &ch a thing 
' had 
