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Vj'^of gradual operation of the sea, and of rivers, the 
hh' ‘rrat f ^ras, in the course of ages, undergone 
If I t^hangcs. The former has encroached in 
L ‘‘rgg j,P^rts, and retired from odiers ; and the mouth 
0 '^rio running through low countries, have often 
modilied, by a deposition and transfer ot 
ijj’iaclyj.j '^‘■'shed down from the land. At Havre, tha 
'♦s? steep coast ; while it recedes at Dun- 
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iVNabl*'" 
^Sof 
In Holland tlie Zuyder Zee 
ly formed, in the middle ages, by continual 
Ml. ^xisf , I ® where only tlie small lake Flevo had 
t'%lv The moutlis of the Rhine have been con- 
^V^s, 
*^red, as well in their dimensions as in their 
foe mud, as it is deposited by large rivers, 
'S a delta, or a triangular piece of land, to 
to the sea. Thus the mouth of the Mississippi 
Vr “rlvancfcd above fifty miles since the disco- 
of island called Sandy Hook, at the 
illi’.tt p„ .tfie river of New York, was, abouc forty years 
t | "tlsula "**■ '-„a , i .„ ],:_c 1 I rpi .„ 
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attached to the high land. The sea. 
Ot^ ^P3ce of Ibrty years, has retired more than a 
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c 
' atij ftosetta, in Egypt ; and the mouths of the 
t tire Rhone, consist in a great measure of new- 
'Uese : 
Sumatra, Java, Rali, and Sumbavia, were 
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a tradition, that in former times the 
’ ^tld qf, ' , 
^dclj jl“^terwards separated into nine different parts. 
"'ben three thousand rainy seasons shall 
pit ' geor"^'^^' united. In tlie Mediter- 
phenomena evince, that the Island of 
uf Gozo, its dependencyj now separated 
;;c>ed 
and the intermediate small island of 
y together with the latter, a single island. 
“Uhmeuts of the sea, and the subsidence ot 
i ‘*0fth ‘ ’ ‘inu uie auusmeuee ui 
ti ''M of land, the islands of Scilly, the aboriginal 
carried on a considerable trade in tin 
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thi 
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s. ., .so^ Jealous of their lucrative traffic with these 
Greeks, and Romans, are now little 
Wien ® ^tows. 
tif'''!' u'' '°^bs, with small patches of earth inter- 
'kier, . \“llows. Strabo describes tlie Phcnicians as 
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Ijnf^y tou a vessel purposely on shore, and 
of tlie crew, rather than have it made 
