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foretell Things to come ; as at Delphi, that most renowned 

 Oracle. In which Things, what other Reason can any mortal 

 Man assign, than the divine Power of Nature diffused through 

 all, which breaketh forth at Times in sundry Sorts? 



CHAPTER XCIV. 

 Of Lands always trembling. 



SOME Parts of the Earth there be that tremble under 

 Men's Feet as they go ; as in the Territory of the Gabians, 

 not far from Rome, where there be almost 200 Jugera of 

 Ground, which tremble as Horsemen ride over them : and 

 the same in the Territory of Reate. 



CHAPTER XCV. 

 Of Islands ever floating. 



SOME Islands are always floating 1 ; as in the Country 

 about Caecubum, Reate above-named, Mutina, and Statonia. 

 Also in the Lake Vadimonis, and near the Waters Cutyliae, 

 there is a dark Grove, which is never seen in one Place for 

 a Day and Night together. Moreover, in Lydia, the Isles 

 Calaminae are not only driven to and fro by Winds, but also 

 many be thrust about with long Poles, which Way a Man 

 will : a Thing that saved many a Man's Life in the War 

 against Mithridates. There are other little ones also in the 

 River Nymphaeus, called Saltuares (or Dancers), because in 

 any Concert of Musicians, they are moved at the Stroke of 

 the Feet, as keeping their Time. In the great Lake of 

 Italy, called Tarquiniensis, two Islands carry about with 

 them Groves : one while appearing triangular, another while 

 round, when they close one to the other by the Drift of 

 Winds, but never four-square. 



It is believed there is something similar in the north of England. 

 Wern. Club. 



