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_ taines, Curtius and Czruleus,whofe heads were 40 miles of: and thefe they carried before them 
pees, with {uch a force and to {uch an height, that they mounted up tothe top of the highett hils of 
Seffertifim ter Rome,and ferved them that dwelt thereupon. This worke coft*three hundred millions offefter- 
milliesshowbeie j ‘ 
Budews readeth Ces.Certes, if a man would well and truly confider the abundance of water that is brought therby, 
quingentie — and how many placesitferveth, aswell publicke as privat, in baines, ftewes,and fithpooles, for 
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siingueaga _\itchins and other houfes of office, for pipesand littleriverets to water gardens,as well abour the 
Baas For Citie,as in manors and houfes of pleafure in the fields neare unto the citie; over & befides, what 
much (nOre 
than the (ixe a i , P : ae 
partsand yer by purpofe for to conveigh them 5 the mountaines that bee pierced and mined through togive way 
Be Soli together, with the vallies that are raifed and made even and levell with other ground: hee will 
million three COMfefle,that there was never any deffeine in the whole world enterprifed andeftected, more ad- 
huadied igh. mitablethan this. Inthe ranke of thefe moft memorable workes of man;I may wellraunge the 
peti: mountaine that was diggedthrough by the fame Claudius Cafar, forto void away the water out 
hiidred French Of the lough or meere Fucinus, although this worke was left unfinifhed for hatred of his*fuccef 
cee four: which I aflure you coft an incredible and inenarrable fume of money,befides the infinit 
toile and labour of a multitude of workemen and labourers fo many yeares together, as well to 
force the water which came upon the pioners from under the ground with devile of engines and 
windles up tothe top of the hull, whereas it {tood upon meere earth ; as tocut and hew through 
F hard ragsandrockes of flint: and all this by candlelight within che earth, in {uch fort,as unleflea 
man had been there to have feene the manner of it,unpoffible it is either to conceive inmind or 
exprefle with congue the difficulty of the enterprife.Ass for the peere afid haven at Oftia (becanfe 
I would make an end once of thefe matters) I will not fay a word thereof, nor of the waies and paf- 
fages cutthrough the mountaines, ne yet of the mightie piles and damns toexcluae the Tuf- 
cane fea,for the Lucrine lake,with fo many rampiers and bridges made of {uch infinit coft.How- 
beit,among many other miraculous thingsin Agypt, one thing more I will relate out of mine 
author Papyrins Fabianus,a great learned Naturalift,namely, That marble doth grow daily inthe 
quarries: and in very truth,the farmers of thofe quarries,and {uch asordinarily do labourand di 
out ftone,doe atfirmeno lefle;who upon their experience doe affure us,thatlook what holes and 
caves be madein thofe rockes and mountaines, the fame will gather againe and fill up in time: 
which ifit be true,good hope there is,that{o long as marbles dee live,excefle in building will ne- 
ver die, aul hie 
Cuap XVI. 
o& The fundrie kinds of the Load-flone and the medicines thereto depending. 
OwthatI am to paffe from marbles, to the fingular & adinirable natures of other ftones; 
who doubreth bur the Magnet or Loadftone wail prefent it felf in the firft placeeforisthere 
_ any thing more wonderfull, and wherein Nature hath more travelled to thew her power, 
than in it? True it is.that to rockes afd {tones fhe had given*voice(as I have alteadyfhewed)wher- 
by they are able to anfwere a man,nay,they are ready to gainefay and multiplie words upon him. 
Butis thac all? what is there to our iceming more dull than the ftiffe and hard ftone?And yet be- 
hold, Nature hath beftowed upon it,fence,yea and handsalfo,with the ufe thereof, What can we 
devife more ftubborne and rebellious in the owne kid, thanthe hard yron, yet it yeeldeth,and 
will abide to be ordered: for loe,itis willing to bedrawne by the load {tone :a marvellous matter 
that chis meteall, which tameth and conquereth all things elfe, fhould run toward I wot not what, 
and the nearer that it ap procheth, ftandeth ftill,as if it were arrefted, and fuffereth it felfe to bee 
held therewith, nay, it clafpeth and clungeth toit, and will not away. And herevpon itis, that 
# etineyé in fome call the load-ftone * Sideritis; others Heracleos. As forthe name Magnes that it hath, 
Qrevk is yron, It tooke it (as Necander faith) of the firft inventor and devifer thereof, who found it (by his fay- 
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a mightie way thefe waters be brought ; the number of arches that of neceflitie muft bebuilt of — 
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ing) upon the mountaine Ida (for now itis to be had in all other countries, like as in Spaine - 
alfo3 ) and (by report) a Neat-heard he was: who, as he kept his beafts upon theforefaid moun- 
M 
taine; might perceive as he went up anddowne,both the hob-nailes which were on his fhoes, — 
and alfo the yron picke or graine of bis ftaffe,to fticke unto the faid ftone. Moreover, Sotacus 
afcribeth and fetteth downe five fundrie kinds of the Joad-ftone : the firlt, which commeth 
out of Athyopia ; the fecorid , from that Magnefia which confineth upon Macedonie ; and 
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