Mifcelhnea Curiofa. 5 7 



fift with the conveniency and fecurity of the whole ? 

 We our (elves, in Cities where we are preffed for 

 Room, commonly build many Stories one over the 

 other,' and thereby accommodate a much greater 

 multitude of Inhabitants. 



But ftill it will be faid, That without Light 

 there can be no no living, and therefore all this 

 apparatus of our inward Globes muft be ufelefs ; 

 To this I Anfwer, That there are many ways of 

 producing Light which we are wholly ignorant 

 of ; the Medium it feif may be always luminous 

 after the manner of our Ignes fatuu The Con- 

 cave Arches may in feveral places {hine with 

 fuch a Subftance as invefts the Surface of the Sun ; 

 nor can we, without a boldnefs unbecoming a 

 Philofopher, adventure to affert the impoffibility 

 of peculiar Luminaries below, of which we have 

 no lbrt of Idea. I am fare the Poets Virgil and 

 Claudian have gone before me in this Thought, 

 inlightning their Elyfian Fields with Sun and Stars 

 proper to thofe infernal, or rather internal Re- 

 gions. Virg. JEneid. 6*. 



Largicr hie compos /Ether & lumine vefiir 

 Pur pur co j Solemque fuum fua Sidera norunt 9 



And Claudian lib x. De Rjptu ProferpinA, 



Amiffum ne crede diem 7 funt altera nobis 

 Sidera, funt orbes alii, luminque videbis 

 Purius, Elyfiumque magis mirabere Solem* 



And though this be not to be efteem'd as an Ar- 

 gument, yet I may take the liberty I fee others 

 do, to quote the Poets when it makes for my 

 purpufe. 



Laftiy, 



