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wandred fafi and made cruel jlaughters of Manhmd^ ani $f Birds and 
Eeajls alfi: Andin the dates Gallus and Volufiantis , about tht 
year z^o^ for fifteen years together ^the Plague rvandred from iEchio- 
pia over allthe remote Provimes ; of which Lipfius/i///y Nec alia 
unquam major lues mihi leda, fpatio Temporum, five Terrarum. 
Sometimes thefi annoyances do coajl it from place to place ; jometimes 
they rage at great dijhnce of time and flace^ and fometimes ( contrary 
to old rules and common expe stations horrid Winters are nearer the 
South ^when in the more Northern Countries the Frofls are remifs^ or 
the Air gentle ; and^ on the contrary^ dejlroying Heats and Drcttghts 
are in colder Climats^ vphen they have more Refrigerating feafons in 
the Sunny Climats ; as in Q&ob> An. 1112 in Engl and 5 the Thanjes, 
Severn and Trent were quite dried ■ and An. 1474« many Woods and 
Forrejs were fired mth Solar heat ^ and the Danube in Hungary fo \ 
near dried up J hat men pajfed over on foot. Jhefe 
inflames feem to confirm thofe Juthors^^y rvho * See mrrib u>^, of 
maintain r that Fountains and Rivers have their ^^^^^ Ti'a^s. 
Originals Jrom Batn and Snovp, Thefe fetv particulars of many hun- 
'dreds I fuggeji on purpc fe, to dew, Hovp much Mankind is concerned^ 
and Nature di [cover hyjlch Eiflorical Collections \ perhaps in time 
to find out the causes of fome of thefe annoy a^/ces^ and poffihly to pre- 
vefit them^ or to devife remedies as Epidemically prefervative^ tts the 
maladies are Epidemically defiruCiive, Of this kind of Liter Mure I 
do not complain as neglecfed. Many excellent and induftriotts chrono- 
logers have taken much pains in it. Alftedius from thofe^ tvho wrote 
before htm^ drevp down his Tables to the year 1630 : Jndour]3ck{Qn 
re-examined all that laboured in it before his dales ; and 'tis believed^ 
that he had good ajf fiance from the Learned Bijhop of Winchefter 
Pr.Andrev^s. And rve are not without hopes ^ that as Learning 
grows on^the befi Antiquaries will continue to corre^ and advance the 
Emendation of Tiroes, with a (fecial afpeci into Nature^ Concomi- 
tants^ and Circumfiances ; which may be obtained , at good certainty^ 
for m&ny foregoing Ages^ And for Celefiial Revolutions ^to the higheji 
fame, the Tables may be recalculated for the fuUefi fatisfaSiion Afiro- 
nomically. 
The lafl Conftderation^^ which I Jball here mention^ afpires to a very 
highflight of human Reafon, as merely human , and fear ches into one 
of thegreatefi depths of Nature^ making the fullefl difcovery of Man- 
kind^ as ManistheMicrocofme^ and D'mux particula aura?; namely 
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