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TReats of the mutations, of the Places of the Water, and Land, or of the mutations of Watery Superficies into the Earthy, or the contrary. To know the Superficies of the Earth, which the Water possesseth, how great it is, and that which the Earth occupieth. That the Super∣ficies of the Water, as also of the Land is not
at all times of the same Magnitude, but some∣times greater, and sometimes lesser; and that when one augmenteth, the other diminisheth. The Water may leave the Shoar for divers causes, and become dry Ground; likewise Rivers leave their Channel, or Shoar, and afford new Land; Lakes are also dried up, and become Land; Streights are exsiceated, and changed into Isth∣musses or Continents; and Bays, or Gulphs, in course of time become dry places. The gene∣ration [ 10] of Sandy-Banks in the Sea, and elsewhere. Islands are produced in the Sea, and Rivers, after the same Mode that Sand-Banks are: yet Islands may proceed from Sand-Banks, although made after another Mode. That the Ocean now pos∣sesseth part of the Land which formerly it did not. The reason why in the middle of the Ocean no Islands are found.