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Chap. 16. tally perish; It doth daily increase or decrease in its parts. Look now upon the Earth which alone some would have immoveable; and to stand by its own strength: Behold there it totters, and is shaken into a palsy fit, by the struggling of those vapours that are pent up in the Bowels of it, and elsewhere it is corrupted by Waters or Fires. For even these are at contest with one another; and that you may not resent it over deeply, that there are warrs amongst Men: The very Elements have theirs also. How many Countryes, hath a sudden Deluge, or inundation of the Sea, either lessen'd, or intirely swallowed up. Of old that great Island Atlantis (for I think it no Fable) afterwards Helice and Bura: And (that we may not have recourse only to ancient and remote times) amongst us Belgians (in the Memory of our Fathers) two Islands; together with their Townes, Rh