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Mr. King’s Account of a Subfdence 
different ways) to the paflage of the fprings, and drains of 
water, through the ffratum of loofe marie, on which the whole 
country refts : an effedt which muff needs produce, at different 
periods of time, various alterations on the furface ; and may 
moff probably have ocafioned much greater changes in the face 
of the country than that made in the prefent inftance. 
Whether therefore Mr. Sackette was right or wrong, in 
his great and final conclufion, concerning the motion of the 
whole coafl ; what he records, on the teflimony of fo many 
aged perfons (in which they perfiffed with great ferioufnefs 
and on the fulleff confideration), does furely ffill deferve at leaff 
to be born in mind, and to be attended to with much circum- 
fpedfion ; efpecially on a coaff, where perhaps fixed points may 
be attempted to be afcertained, at fome time or other, in order 
to complete the moff accurate and moff curious philofophical 
menfurations. 
And 1 muff further venture to obferve, in vindication of 
Mr. Sackette’s account and conclufions, that although Tar- 
lingham-houfe has indeed been rebuilt, fince the time referred 
to by the old man who converfed with Mr. Lyon ; and there- 
fore that old man’s remark might be occafioned merely by that 
circumftance; yet it had not been rebuilt in Mr. Sackette’s 
time; and, therefore, no fuch circumftance could be the occa- 
■fioh of its coming recently in view , at that period when he 
wrote, in parts of the coaff where it had not been poffibJe to 
fee it at fome time before. 
And as to the Mooring Rock, fo particularly referred to by 
Mr. Sackette, being now utterly unknown ; it ought to be re- 
membered, that Mr. Sackette, in his defcription of it, fays, 
that it lies fur rounded with great numbers of other rocks , and 
was on this account chiefly a noted one , becaufe at it vejjels ufle to 
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