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An Account of the Strata of Shells, and other Fof- 
fils, found at Cantley White-Houfe in Norfolk. 
Fter giving you a Abort Account of what I 
thought worth my Notice on our North- Eaft 
Sea-Coaft, I (hall here lay before you what I have 
obferved in feme Marl-Pits at a Place called Cantley 
White-Houfe^ about three Miles from Norwich , al- 
moft South-Eaft, and adjacent to the Country Seat 
of the honourable Thomas Here, Efquire (e), 
Thefe Marl or rather Chalk-Pits are made in the 
Side of a long Chain of Hills, which runs along the 
Side of the River Tar-> and about a Furlong or two 
now-and-then diftant from it. 
Thefe Hills I take to have been formerly the 
Boundaries to an Arm of the Sea, which made Nor- 
wich a famous Sea-Port. This, Sir, fome of our 
(f) antientHiftories make mention of as an undoubted 
Truth, tho' now look'd upon as a mere Fable, as no 
Footfteps of it remain above-ground at this Day. 
In the above-mention'd Marl-Pits I have lately dif- 
covered a (g) Stratum of Shells, of about two Feet 
(e) Verfiegan fays, that many Places which were Sea became 
dry Land, at the breaking of the German Ocean through the Ifthmus 
which once join’d England to Trance. Vet ft. p. 117. 
(f) The Reverend Mr. Bloomfield , in his Hiftory of Norwich, pro- 
duceth ifeveral antient Writings, which affsrt the Truth of this. 
Page 2. 
(g) The Reverend Mr. Thomas Lawrence , in his Mer cur ius Centralis, 
is of Opinion, thefe Shells, and all others under-ground, are lodged 
here by fubterraneous Currents. Page 47. 
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