1 1 6 Cyrus-Garden, Or 



fquare. For though they might be fix- 

 teen in Rank and file, yet when they 

 ft ut clofc, fo that the fixt pike advanced 

 before the firft, though the number 

 might be fquare, the figure was oblong, 

 anfwerable unto the Quincunciall qua 

 drate of Curtitu. According to this fquare 

 Tbucydides delivers , the Atbcniant dif- 

 pofed their battle again ft the L&ccdemonjr* 

 f t9*K<u- ant f brick wife, and by the fame word 

 **? the Learned GueUw expound eth the qua* 



z scfa in* dr ace of 8 ?irg$l 9 after the form of a brick 



Secern- OItilC - 



went. j n And as the firft ftation and pofition of 

 Vngii. trees, fo was the firft habitation of men, 

 not in round Cities, as of later foundati 

 on ; For the form of Babylon the firft Ci 

 ty was fquare, and fo (hall alfo be the 

 la ft, according to the defer iption of the 

 holy City in the Apocalyps, The famons 

 pillars of Scth before the floud, had alfo 

 the like foundation, if they were but 

 antMuvian Obelisks, and fuch as Cham 

 and his SLgyptiut race, imitated after the 

 Flcud. 



But Nineveh which Authours acknow 

 ledge to have exceeded "Babylon^ was of 

 b Dkd. sic, a h Jongilatcrall figure, ninety five Fur 

 longs 



