! ^8 ^ The 'biatufkl iit^ory Bart If 0 



vafiation and HavGdrfhepMia|e 

 both of the Ejtf tfeit felf/ '6^ tm Gene-' 

 rality of Marrkipd, of Brutes^ ^ri^ all 

 Animals, had wSrbtight a deep and ve- 

 ry, lerifible ImpreflftQn upon the^'Minds 

 of thefe zncidnt N^ons,; fi^ed 

 neajrer to the tirxie of it, ' TMt^tf 

 had "hot only a ^ejiibry ^ 

 of it in genferarand;at lar^ r^tit even 

 of feverai the riic^ rernafkabkl parti* 

 cular Accidcqt^ joF it'likewife 3 which 

 they handed downwards, 1:6 the fiic^ 

 ceeding Agfes"^ fbi*^fbme timiS^ with 

 l^otes of the greateft Terror, -Atftaze- 

 ment, and Con{l:fetnatiDri expreffihte 

 That it ivas cddftiefe 

 CWt^ft Reiigtdus Rites arid C^itNiio- 

 pie^ ufed By them in- the Wofihip of 

 the EARTH : which Siiper^tiou5 

 Adoration was firft inftitut^' Upon 

 this Occafioh irt th&fe firaplfe 5and ig^ 

 fr-id. norant Ages i^V ;and addrel^^to^the 

 Earth, not dnfy 'fe^prefly afid^h^N^ame^ 

 &m^ry btit alfo under the feigned- ^fifl Idop- 

 — rowed ^^xn^l<y^' AlargdHi 



Mdgn^ Mater^ CyMe, ^tid Ritd^ withi 

 feverai more^ l^^f H^hieh^ *^he}^ 

 terided the ■E^tt^r'^ T^dX'-^^ 

 the Traditiori^'for _^ wS'ot of-lietrefk, 

 ' ■ ' r Jf^- which 



