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Rh In the ſecond earthquake, not only this country was affected again, but likewiſe a much larger ſpace of the ſame ſort of fenny ground, rather worſe than the former: all Donnington-fen, Deeping-fen, Croyland-fen, Thorney-fen, Whitleſea-fen, Bedford level, and the whole extent of Ely-fen, under various denominations. This country, under the turf, abounds with ſubterraneous timber of all forts; fir, oak, and bruſh-wood: and ſtags horns. Now and then they find a quantity of hazel nuts, crouded together on an heap. I have ſome of them. This is a matter common to all boggy ground over the whole globe. Such things are the ruins of the antediluvian world, waſhed down from the high country where they grew, were here lodg’d upon the ſubſiding of the waters, and by time are o’ergrown with the preſent turf. They that ſeek for any other ſolution of this affair, than the univerſal Noachian deluge, want to account for a general effect, by a partial cauſe: and ſhut their eyes, both to the plain hiſtory of this matter; and to the infinite, notorious demonſtrations of it, from foſſil appearances.

5ly, All this country, tho’ underneath ’t is a watry bog, yet thro’ this whole ſummer, and autumnal ſeaſon (as they can have no natural ſprings in ſuch a level) the drought has been ſo great on the ſuperficies, that the