z6 Atlantis. 



(VVhitc. His Under-Garments were the like that we Taw him 

 wear in the Chariot } Bucinfteedof his Gown, he had on him 

 a Mantle with a Cape , of the fame fine Black , fattened about 

 him. When we came in, as we were taught, we bowed Low 

 at our firft Entrance ; And when we were come near h«s 

 Chair, he ftoodup, holding forth his Hand ungloved, and in 

 Pofture of Blefsing 5 And we every one of us (looped down, 

 and kitted the Hem of his Tippet. That done, the reft depart- 

 ed , and 1 remained. Then he warned the Pages forth ohhe 

 Room, and caufed me to fit down befide him, and (pake to me 

 thus in the Spanifb 'Tongue. 



GOD bleffe thee, mySon h 1 wiD give thee the greatefi Jewell 

 have. For I "frill impart unto ihie , for the loVe of GOD and 

 Men , a (Relation of the true State of Salomons Houfe, Son, to make 

 you know the true State of Salomons Houfe , I H> 'tQ keep this Order. 

 Firft, I will fetfotth unto you the End of our Foundation. Second y 9 

 the Preparations and Inftruments wehaVe for our Works. Thirdly , 

 the fever d Employments and Funclious whereto our Fellows^ of 

 figned. And fourthly the Ordinances and Rites which we ohftrve. 



'The end of our Foundation is the I\no^ledge of Caufes, -and Secret . 

 Motions of things ; and the Enlarging of the bounds (^Humane Em- 

 pire, to theEffeBmg ofallThings pofsible. 



The Preparations ^Inftruments are thefe. We hxVe large and 

 deep Caves of federal Depths • The deepefi are funk, 600 Fathome 8 

 A nd fime of them are aigged and made under great Hdis and Mountains i 

 So that if you reckon together the Depth of the Hill , and the Depth of 

 the Cave , they are ( fome of them ) above three miles deep. For Tt?e 

 find) that the Depth of an Hill, and the Depth of a Cave from the Flat, 

 is the fame Thing j both remote alike t from the Sun , and Heavens 

 ^Beams , and from the open Jir t Thefe Cav es we call the Low cr 

 j Region J nd we vfe them for all Coagulations, Indurations, Re- 

 |frigerations , and Confervations of Bodies. We ufe them Itkgwije 

 for the Imitation f/ Natural Mines ; And /fo Producing , alfoof 

 jNew Artificial Metals, bj Compofitions and Mateinls which 

 '\Tbe ufe and lay there for many years. We ufe them afo fometimes, ( "thick 

 may feem ftrange) for Curing o^JweDifeafes, and for Prolongation 

 of Life , in fome Hermits that choofe to live there , wed [accomodated 

 of all things necejjary , and indeed liVi very long} by whomalfowekarn 

 many things ; 



j Wi have Burials in feVeral Earths , where we put divers Ce- 

 ments I 



