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 put either by nature, or by the hand of man, but by an imaginary or fantastick line: which kinde of doing being embraced, the Geometers may steale away the earth, and the Astronomers the heavens from us.'

True it is that there are not in every part of the sea isles 'sensible (as Gernsey is to England in the narrow seas) or sands (as the Washes at the West seas of England) nor rockes, or other eminent and visible markes above water, for the designation of the bounds (or laying-out the limits) of the divisible parts thereof', but has not God, who is both the distributer and first author of the division and distinction of both land and sea, 'diversly informed men by the helpes of the Compasse, counting of courses, sounding, and other waies, to finde forth, and to designe finitum in infinito; so farre as is expedient for the certaine reach and bounds of seas, properly pertaining to any Prince or people?'