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(at the fame or greater depth, in t different Soil from 
what they had dug through^ rnany Roots of Trees, 
where it is beheved the furface of the old Country y/as 
before it was covered by the Sea, (as alfo at Spalditfg) 
But having given an account thereof to Mr Ralph 
Thoreshy of Leeds in Torkfiire^ a year or two ago, it you 
think it worth the Recording, you may have it Ifup- 
pofe from him when you pkafe. 
V. ^artofa Letter from Mr Thoresby, F. % S. to 
the T^ullijher^ ' ^ further account of the fame. 
TH E Perfon you inquire of, is, I am fure an ingeni- 
ous, obhging and good man, what you dcfire a 
tranfcript of, I here fend you in his own words. 
* Near the River Wetland, that runs thro the Town of 
^Spalding in Ltncoinjlnre^ at the depth of above 8 or 
* lo foot, there were found 'jettys^ as* they call them, 
* to keep up the old Rivers Bank, and the head of a Tun- 
* nel that emptied the Land- water into die old River 5 and 
' at a confiderable diftance from the prefent River, I guefs 
* 20 or 30 yards, there were dug up (about, the like depth) 
* feveral old 5^?^/j,which things fliew that anciently the Ri- 
* ver was either much wider than now it iSjOr ran in another 
* place, or both. On the other, vi%. the North Weft fide of 
* theRiver,and more upwards in the Town,were digg'd up 
* (at about the afore-mentioned depth) the remains of old 
* Tanviits or P/V/, a great quantity of Ox-horns^ and the 
* Shoe- foles, which I told you of, and I think the very 
* Tanners knobs, &Cn v/hich things (hew, that the furface 
* of the Country lay anciently much lower than now it 
'does, and has been raifedby the Seas throwing in its Sand 
Vin the Maritime parts (now moft inhabited) and by the 
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