( 10^4 ) 
As to what I fay, concerning the Ifle of Oxftey 3 I did 
then purpofely omit many Circumftances, which I did not 
think much material to the point in hand : Choofing fo 
to do, rather than to be in danger of mifreprefenting 
(on my preient Memory) what I had heard long before. 
That which I thought material to the point in hand,was 
this, That a low Level, iii the Ifle of Oxne/y ( which 
had for divers years lain under Water, ) is now Raifed 
by intromitting theTydeJ to a confiderable height ai- 
bove what it had formerly been 3 And, that theCliannel 
from thence to RyCy is (by the Tydes paffing in and out' 
Become much Wider and Deeper than hcretoforei Both) 
which are Evident, and not to be denyed. 
If you would have me fpeak more particularly to this 
matter ( fo far as my Memory fervesme ) I take it to be 
thus. 
If we look irf the more Antient Maps oiKtnt (older 
than the year 1640 ) you will find, that ( what we call) 
the Ifle ofOxmy^ was then but a Pm-infula 5 being (hj 
a fmall ifihmus or neck of Land at the North-Eaft cor- 
ner oi it) continued to the reft of the Country : And 
the Tyde from Rye to that place ( which now flows 
ftraight onward on the North fide of the Ifle J was there 
flopped by thdtt Ifthmui^ and did wheel about on the 
South fide of it : Or rather, the River Rot her ^ did (from 
the North fide of the Ifland) wheel about by the South 
fide (*to that Eaftern corner^)and thence (by the Chanel) 
to Rye. 
While things were in this ftate y divers Moorifli or 
Marfti-lands^ adjoining to the River Rather^ were oft in 
danger fupon great Rains ) to be Drowned* But fo ft 
once happened (by what accident 1 know not, ) that, 
this-Drowned Land, had unexpeftedly (in a nights time, 
or little more) difGharged itfelf on another Level,, fome- 
what lower than itfelh 
UpiOE 
