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xstXtDehoolah^Sunmii^Sumavd^Trilleeks^Sannotah^ 

 CufpylcJIjaw^ Surafchah and Burroopung thefe 

 underftanding out of their Books that fuch 

 a Flood would come, and was then adually 

 coining, prepaired againft the fame, and re^ 

 paired thither ^ to which place alfo went 

 itwo of all forts of Creatures, Herbs, Trees^ 

 and Gralles, and of every thing that had 

 Life, to the number in all of iSocooo liv- 

 ing Souls. This Flood (fay they) lafted 120 

 Years, 5 Months and 5 days : After which 

 time all thofe Creatures that were thus pr?- 

 ferved, defcended down again and reple- 

 nifiied the Earth : But as for the 7 Men and 

 Women, only one of them came down with 

 her, and dwelt at the Foot of the Moun- 

 tain, the other fix turned Fuchee^s^ or 1:Io\y 

 Men, and f^^ent there the remainder of their 

 days* 



They hold in general the Ttolomaic Syftem 

 of the Univerfe, and fay that there are 8 or 9 

 Heavens, counting the Air and Earth, every 

 one exceeding another in Beauty and Glory. 



Their Religion confifts of nothing that I 

 could ever fee or learn, but the leading of 

 3; Pure Life, the Wafhing away of their Sins 

 in the River Ganges^ their muttering over 

 of divers Prayers, and their doing of ftrange 

 and incredible Penances. 



They fay, that God is fuch a one, that- 

 whofoever fe?ks hira, let it be, after what 

 manner he pleafes, whether by tbiaking that 

 the Sun is he, or the Moo% or the like^ 

 if they do it but fincerely and honeftly, witlt 

 a right afFcfted heart, they fhall b^ received 

 of him* 



