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suxrounding the Isle of Ely was, hi the time 
a thousand years ago, one of the most 
\ *'’EoloGICAL GHANGE3 Of rilE EAKTH. 
^'slltfhl 
Qy 3nd highly cultivated spots in Great Britain : it 
''5tcf '■"'Itelmed, and remained for several centuries under 
\ at length, the sea, by a caprice similar to the 
prompted, its invasions, abandoned the 
^■tivg J'*' 'witliout the latter being able to recover its pri- 
\l(j tliat of one of the most fertile valley's in the 
°lher hand, the sea has, in many instances, de- 
, ® land; and by the deposition of its sediment in 
anH tl-wa anmmnUltinn nf* cnnHc in 
. and the accumulation of its sands in otliers, 
''^tmed new lands. In this manner the Isle oi 
to^. J'®®}' Romney Marsh, was produced. In France, 
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Of n Aigues Mortes, which was a sea-port in the 
th ^ ^°tiis, is now removed more than four miles 
• '*'>1 it, -1*®®- Psalmodi, also in that kingdom, was an 
‘4in tu“‘f yea 
''titi 
year 815, and is now upwards of six miles 
In Italy, a considerable portion of land 
Sained at the mouth of the river Arno ; and 
^%ly ‘ "'Itich once stood by the sea-side, is now consi- 
iv ® Coog from it. Every part of Holland seems to 
®tiOf p®st from the sea, and to have been rescued, in a 
its bosom. The industiy of man, however, 
^'^'^Ot. of dykes, IS here to be brought into 
A ’ the surface of the earth, in that country. Is 

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part below the surface of Uie sea. 
of the surface of the globe are covered by 
'•iv depth of which has been estimated at 
(Ot Blit-- leu miles. Demonstrative proofs exist in 
[j ^‘td in various parts of the world, that great 
taken place in the relative positions of the 
1i, 
its with the ocean, which, in former ages, 
im. Ov'er the summits of our nresent elevalcd 
this 
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Over the summits of our present elevated 
tsou_‘ lo illustrate this subject, and before these 
i( 1 ‘ are e ” JUustrate this subject, and 
'*ili , Phei, taored on, in the consideration of the 
_;eolo- 
l‘lii'(;'j® Proj'^”®‘'“» named “ extraneous fossils,” it 
v?ri>!t ''ew p introduce the pleasing and truly philo.so- 
't, Rie successive changes the eartli has' un- 
*0 taained in Sir Richard Phillips’s Morning’s 
passing near die banks of the Thames, 
"its led, in two several ptaces, to introduce 
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