He warps each to help the other, as follows: "Water, making but one globe with the earth, is yet higher than it.
This appears, first, because it is a body not so heavy; secondly, it is observed by sailors that their ships move faster to the shore than from it, whereof no reason can be given but the height of the water above the land; thirdly, to such as stand on the shore the sea seems to swell into the form of a round hill till it puts a bound upon our sight.

Now that the sea, hovering thus over and above the earth, doth not overwhelm it, can be ascribed only to his Providence who 'hath made the waters to stand on an heap that they turn not again to cover the earth.'"(32) (32) For Gog and Magog, see Ezekiel xxxviii and xxxix, and Rev.xx, 8; and for the general subject, Toy, Judaism and Christianity, Boston, 1891, pp.

373, 374.

For maps showing these two great terrors, and for geographical discussion regarding them, see Lelewel, Geog.

du Moyen Age, Bruxelles, 1850, Atlas; also Ruge, Gesch.