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plies DO fuch maffic hewing, but cutting, 



and faftiioning of them into ftape and 



furface; fince fome will have them E- 



meralds, and if they were made of the 



1 materials of Mount Sina, not improba- 



! ble that they were marble : Since the 



words were not many, the letters fhort of 



five hundred* and the Tables written on 



j both fides required no fuch capacity. 



The beds of the Ancients were diffe~ 



| rent from ours at prefent, which are al- 



moft fquare , being framed ob-long, 



and about a double unto their breadth $ 



i not much unlike the area, or bed of this 



Quincuncial quadrate. The finglc beds of 



greeccwere * fix foot, and a little more 



in length, three in breadth ; the Giant- 



like bed ofog, which had four cubits of 



bredth, nine and a half in length, varied 



not much from this proportion. The 



Funeral bed of King Cbeopsjn the greater 



Pyramid, which holds feven in length,and 



four foot in bredth, had no great dif- 



formity from this mcafure s AndwhaN 



foever were the bredth, the length could 



hardly be leflc, of the tyrannical bed of 



Procrujles, fince in a fhorter meafure he 



had not been fitted withperfons for his 



1 4 cruelty 



