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try was affeded again, but likcwifc a much larger 
Space of the fame fort of fenny Ground, rather 
worfe than the former: All ‘ Doningt on-Fen , ’Deep- 
ing- Fen, Croy land Fen, Thorney-Fen y JVhitlefea- 
Len, Bedford-Level , and the whole Extent of Ely - 
Fen , under various Denominations. This Country, 
under the Turf, abounds with fubterrancous Tim- 
ber of all kinds; Eir, Oak, and Brulh-wood; 
Stags Horns : Now-and-then they find a Quantity 
of Hazel-nuts, crouded together on a Heap: I have 
fome of them. This is a Matter common to all 
boggy Ground over the whole Globe. They are 
the Ruins of the antediluvian World, walk’d down 
from the high Country, where they grew, here 
lodg’d, and by time overgrown with the prefent 
Turf. They that feek for any other Solution of 
this Affair, than the univerfal Noackian Deluge, 
want to account for a general Effed by a partial 
Caufe; and fhut their Eyes, both to the plainHifiory 
of this Matter, and to the infinite notorious De- 
monftrations of it from fofiil Appearances. 
5. All this Country, tho’ underneath it is a watry 
Bog, yet, through this whole Summer, and au- 
tumnal Seafon (as they can have no natural Springs 
in fuch a Level) the Drought has been fo great on 
the Superficies, that the Inhabitants were obliged 
every Day to drive their Cattle feveral Miles, for wa- 
tering. This fhews how fit the dry Surface was for 
an eledrical Vibration; and wc learn from hence 
this important Particular, that it reaches but very 
little below the Earth’s Surface. 
hlr.JohnJjM, in another Letter which he wrote to 
me concerning the fecond Earthquake, obferved at 
Spalding, fays, upon this Occafion, he was obliged 
to 
