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A POSJ'SCRIPT. 
Since mine to you of Sept. 20. (about Chartham News) I 
h^ve been informed from Canterbury, That Mr Willi- 
am Somner (as I conjeftured) was the Author of that Trea- 
tife 3 that (after his death) it was publiflied by his Elder 
Brother Mr ^ohn Somner^ in whofe Lands the Boms and 
Te^th were found 5 that figureS'Of all the Bones ( as well as 
of the T^eeth) were then^rawn (tho not Printed) and re- 
main now. with Mr Gr^j', an Alderman' of C^/z^er^z/ry 5 that 
thole Bones 2iX\6, Teeth then found, were prefented to the 
Royal Society^ and are remaining in their Repofitory atGre- 
jkam Co I ledge. 
To what I then wrote, you may add this which follows. 
At Hjthe in Kent (which is one of the Cinq- Ports) there 
was (in pur Fathers time) a Convenient Harbour for fmall 
Veffels^ which is now fwarved up, feveral attempts have 
been made to recover the Harbour, but with fmall fuccefs. 
For when fwith great Labour and Charge) they' have (in 
fome meafure) opened it, it hath foon been; filled up again, 
by v/hat the Sea cafts up. And whoever confiders the vaft 
quantity of Cwhat they call) Bead (that is, a vaft multi- 
tude of fmall loofe Siones and Filli-ftiells, caft up by the 
Sea at Hjthe, Lyd, and elfewhere on the Coaft of Romney 
Marjh, (for divers miles in Length and Breadtli, and to a 
great depth,J will not think it ftrange, that a Cree^ or JE- 
fluarj flbould come in time to be filled up and become firm 
Land. And in many places of this Beachy ground, where 
(within the memory 01 perfons now living) nothing was 
to be feen but fuch loofe Stones and Shells f to a great 
depth J it comes (by degrees) to be covered with Earth,and 
becomes Pafture Ground. 
On the coQtrary,thait what was formerly Firm-land, may 
be fo deftroyed or wafhed away, as to become Sea, is evi- 
dent from (what they call) the Goodwin-Sandsy on the 
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