e Quincunx. 



Of deeper donbt is its Topography, 

 and local! defignation, yet being the pri 

 mitive garden, and without much d con- d For feme 

 troverfie feated in the Eaft 5 it is 

 more then probable the firft curiofity, ambiguity 

 and cultivation of plants, moft fiourifh- of the word 

 ed in thofe quarters. And fince the Ark JJS^ 

 of^oah firft toucht upon fome moun- orieute or a 

 tains of v4rmenu y the planting art arofe 

 again in the Eaft, and found its revolu 

 tion not far from the place of its Nati 

 vity, about the Plains of thofe Regions. 

 And if Zoroafter were either Chant, Cbus y 

 or Mizraiat) they were early proficients 

 therein, who left (as Pliny delivereth) a 

 work of Agriculture, 



However the account of the Penfill or 

 hanging gardens yf Babylon > if made by 

 SemiramU) the third or fourth from Nim- 

 rob is of no (lender antiquity 5 which 

 being not framed upon ordinary levell 

 of ground, but railed upon pillars, ad 

 mitting under- paffages;, we cannot accept 

 as the fitft Babylonian Gardens 5 But a 

 more eminent progrefsand advancement 

 in that art, then any that went before it : 

 Somewhat anfvvering or hinting the old 

 Opinion concerning Paradife it felfi with 



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