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Coaft oiKent which is faid to have been the Lands of Earl 
Goodwin -^ but loft by an Inundation about the time that 
Tenterden Steeple was built, (which gave occafion to that 
Ironical Proverb of things contemporary, that Tenterden 
Steeple Tt?as the caufe <?/ Goodwin Sa?^dso) The occafion of 
fuch different effefts, depending on the different fituation of 
the Shores and the fetting of the Tydes 5 fo as to walh off 
from one place what it lodgeth on other. 
And many fuch alterations (no doubt) have been of the 
Face of the Earth, all the World over, of which we have 
no particular Hiftories. For the World was of a great Age, 
before the Writing of any Hiftories (except the Bible) now 
extant. 
And who knows, but that (in former Ages) even amidft 
the Alps^ there may have been large Lakes, which^ in pro- 
cefs of time, (by Earthquakes or other Accidents,) may 
have been drained of their Water, and become fruitful 
Vallies: of which it is faid divers fymptoms have beendif- 
a)vered, even amidft the Alps^ in later Ages. 
And fomething of the like nature hath happened within 
fome few years laft paft, in Jamaica, in Sicily, and other 
places Of which it were not amifs, (if it be not done al- 
ready) that particular Narratives were fomewhere inferted 
in yourTranfadions. 
ML P^m 
