34.4. The Statural Hifiory 



lis, which Buxtorf faith the Rabbins called D'Sip n'3 ^^^w Koli**\ 

 of which more hereafter when I come into that County ; and into 

 Ketf/, where of Kits-coty-boufe, which I take to be an Antiquity 

 of the fame kind. 



103. That the Britanslong before the arrival of the Romans, 

 were acquainted with the Greeks, has fufficiently I guefs been 

 made appear already, . 66. of this Chapter ; and that long be- 

 fore that they were known to the Phoenicians, and all the Eailern 

 Countries, is plain out of Strabo r , and Bochartws ', and by com- 

 parifon of the Learning and Religion of the Druids, with thofe of 

 the Indian Brachmans. Now that it was the ancient cuftom of all 

 the Greeks tofetup unpolifi' 'dftones inftead of Images, to the ho- 

 nor of their Gods, we have the teftimony of Paufanias in thefe 



WOrds #n * 5 * n mhcuongft, , <& To?i moiv E.M.ec<, ti^s fig&SV aVri aLyxh^f- 



$?%* dpy>\ hi&>i\ i.e. that unhewn ftones amongft all the Grecians, 

 had the honor of Gods inftead of Images ; more particularly the 

 fame Author aflerts, that near the Statue of Mercury there were 30 

 fquare ftones, TgTe^roi *A9oi r&<*wm, which the Pharii worfhipt, 

 and gave to every one of them the name of a God a . 



1 04. That the Arabians and Paphians alfo worflhip'd fuch like 

 Gods, is like wife witnefled by Maximums Tyr i'i6. A&IG01 eiSvai^r, 



ovnvccSi esKoTSbt,' 3 Si aytXng.0 eTSbv, PuG. 1m ttt^ayev^-. Fa<p/ois?i fMv A- 

 9P$tw i!s ittf&s *xi' 8 5 ayai\(J& vx. ay (I^ooj: aMfti t^ *i >mejL[Uix Awxj 



i.e. that the Arabians worfhip'd he fcarce knew what God , but 

 that he faw amongft them was only a fquare flone ; and that the 

 Paphians wordiip'd Venus under the reprefentation of a white 

 Pyramid. 



105. And Herodian defcribing the Worjhip of HeUgabalus at 

 Emefa in Phoenicia, faith, that he had no kind of Image after the 

 modern Greek, or Roman fafhion made by mens hands, *' G * 



Si mi ?i fJJiyr&t y&'m&iv i^ipgp, A^'jew eis o^uVeT*, xwoa^s ew/7&T 2*^51 *> 



i. e. but a great ftone round at the bottom, and lefleningby de- 

 grees toward the top, after the manner of a Cone. To which 

 add, that Peter della Valle, in his late Travels into the Indies, 

 faith, that at Ahmedabad there was a famous Temple of Mahadeu* 

 wherein there was no other Image but a little column of ftone af- 



* Job. Buxtorfii Lex. Talmud- in v. Markplis. t strabonis Geographic, lib. \pag. 1 75> Edit. If- Cafaub. 

 Paris, <^An. 1620. * Sam. Bocharti Ceog.Sacr.part.2H6. I. cap. 39. c n*ni* A%a4>&.pag. 228. E<#/. 

 Silburg. " /bidem. w Max. TyriiDifJert. Pbllofoph.tf. p tf*).. Edit- Dan- Heinpi. * Herodiani Hifto- 

 riar-lii 5-p<srg. 114. Edit Hen. Stepbani. 



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