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it has often happened, that Pieces of Earth of a 
Charter or Half an Acre, have feparated them- 
felves all in one Piece, from the Top of a Hill, and 
Aided down vifibly on the Lands lying below. 
How confiderable foever this Accident may be in 
regard to the poor People who fuffered by it, yet it 
was to be wifhed it was the only one that has be- 
fallen this Province. The Overflowings of the River 
AlUeTi and of the Rivers and Brooks that run into 
it, and the Hail that fell almofl: continually fince, 
have intirely mined above One hundred Parifhes, in 
which they will have no Harveft this Year as for Corn 
and Hemp, nor any Vintage at all. 
V. A Differ tation on the Worms ^hich dejiroy 
the Piles on the Coajls 0 /" Holland and Zea- 
land, hy Job Bafter, iVf. 2). F. R. S com' 
munlcated by the Prefident oj the Royal 
Society. T ranjlated ^ from the Latin 
by T. S. M 2). F. R. S. 
Section I. 
I N the Year 1730. the Perfons appointed to take 
care of the Dikes on our Coafts, obferved that 
the Piles made of the hardeft Oak, defending the 
* This is here inferred in EngUJh^ becaufe a very ample Treatife 
hath been publifhed in Liatin on the fame Subjeft, intituled, Godofredi 
Sellii^ J. U. D. jR. S. L.ond. S. Hift. Nat. Teredinis feu Xylo^hagi ma- 
rini. Tubulo-conchdidis^ Traj. ad Rhen. 1733. 4to. 
Coafls 
