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from whence perhaps the whole might take its denomina^ 
tion. And though he tfeUsus (from another Writer) that 
it was fve days Voyage from the Britifl) Ifland, to (that part 
of^ his Atlantica,^ whcYQ for thirty days together the Sm dath 
/7i?/ye^ ^ this hinders not but that the BnV/j^ Iflands may 
be part of the Atlantkk Region^ though fo far diftant from 
the utmoft Northern Cape of it. /'f -^.jcj.c: 
This I thought fit to add, in cdirf^rtai^y that oi 
Mr Camden in his Britannia, and that of this Author, in 
his Ckartham-Nevps. And the rather, beeaufe this Author 
feems very defirous, that others would contribute what 
they know, or have obferved, relating thereunto. 
1 know not, whether I may not yet venture upon on^ 
ftep further. This Author tells us, that this ^j^^^r^(frotii 
Sandwich to JJhford) might perhaps flow fo much further, 
as to meet with that JEfluary on Romney Marjh^ and (both- 
being conjoyned) become one Level. 
. There is, I think about 3 or 4 miles diftance, between 
J//jprd and the neareft part of Ronjiney'MB.YQ\, How the 
intermediate Lands be qualified, I do not well remem- 
berr 
But^ if this be admitted, that the two Mftuaries (that 
of Stoure and that of Romney-Marjh J in former times may 
thus have met : Yhis opens a new Scheme, of which be- 
fore we were not aware. For then we muft fay, that the 
two Tydes f that from the North and that from the Weft) 
which now meet at the Dogger Sands, did then meet at 
the confluence of thefe two Mflmries. And then (as was 
but now faid of the Dogger S^^^/J bringing f on both 
fides) Earth, Mud and Sand to this place, and lodging it 
there 5 might firft form an Iflhmus there, and (by degrees) 
fill up thofe JEJinaries on both fides. Mean while, wafh- 
ing away that Ifihmus between Dover and Calais^ and o- 
pening a new paffageas now itis. 
There be many other JEfiuaries in England^ where the 
Sea now enters a great way into the Land 3 and, how far 
it 
