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fkealis therein was of an extraordinary bignefs, and eonfid^r, that 
Lions, Bears, and other bold and fierce Animals have that part fo 
very fmall that 'tis hardly dircernable, and that the fame is exceed- 
ing big in thofe that are very tiniorous,as the Elk ; this Animal be- 
ing efteeraed to be fo fearful, that it even dies of fear when it hath 
received theflighteft wound, it having been obferv'd, that it never 
furvives when it feeth any of its own blood. 
The eighth diVidi laft is the Coati Mondi^ a Braftlian Animal , re- 
corded by Margra^ius^Laet^ and others, in whofe books the de- 
fcription of that Animal differs only in the defcription here 
made of it^ that in the former the Authors defcribcvnot their teeth, 
which have a peculiar conformation, nor the fpurs on their feet ; 
and that they make the length of its much longer than the 
whole body ; which in this Cbdti of our Authors, was but niort in 
comparifon ; but may have been eaten off by the Animal it felf, 
forafmuchas De Laet fd\t\\ ^ that this kind of Creatures are wont 
ro gnaw their tail, and fometimes quite off j which when they do 
they die of it. 
So much of one of thefetreatifes: The other, being a New and 
with great accuratenefs performed Menfurationof the Earth, hath 
been largely defer ibed, aboveayearfince^ in A"«/»^, 112 of thefe 
Trafis, to which we fliall refer the Curious Reader, 
in. BRITJNNIA JNTI^UJ lUuftrdta , or, The 
'jNTl^UiriES of ANClENr BRltAlN", 
derived from the Phoenicians, &c. TheFirfi VolmHe : By Aylctt 
Sammes, of Chrijl's Colledge Cambridge ; JiHce^ of the Inner 
Te?/^ple,London^ printed ^ Tho. Roycroft for the Author, 1676. 
THE Learned and Curious Undertaker of this ^reat Work 
bath endeavoured, in this his Fir ft Volume, t6attrib«te,vvith 
the Worthy Bcchart , :thG firft difcovcry of Britain to the Fhceni- 
€ians\ and to make a German illation, and lior iM Oahls, the firft 
Planters of the fame,and to impute that great agreetnent whieli was 
between the Ancient Britains md Gauls^ in point of Language 
and Cuftomes, not to their being originally the fame People , but 
to the joyritentertainm^iii^io/^ ^be J^hcenicians^ thre 
ancient and great Navigators throughout the Wbtld. 
From this Commerce with the rh^nicidnsVe ^doth '^v'ith much 
probabilitydeduce theOriginal "Trade of ^i^ib^i^^^ 
of Places,Offices, and Dignities, as alfo t^i i^^ngtia^^e, -^Matine^s,^ 
Idolatry. 
