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In his fourth Chapter he brings fome new fufFrages of 
the Scalds unexplain'd before, and alfo of Greel{ ana Latin 
Writers, in this cafe; And after having given us many 
quotations, he tells us that a certain over great admiration 
of the Southern World, grown up in progrefs of time, 
thro an oblivion or hatred ot the Northern affairs, had led 
many Men into Errors, from the true Senfe of the moft 
Antient Writers, whofe Words neverthelefs they had pre- 
ferv'd Pi.eligioufly enough. 
In his nfth Chapter, which is large enough to make a 
good Volume of itfclf, he treats of the BehoUtria^ or Sun* 
mrfhip among the Atlantiques^ and of its firft Ongin 5 and 
afterwards of its propagation thxo Europe^ f^JiaznA -Africa. 
He fays a Man would hardly think, tLn all Mankind being 
deftroy'd after fo wonderful a manner, by a Deluge, faving 
Noah and his Family, his Pofterity cafting off al! fear of . a 
-Deity, fhould fo eafily fall into Idolatry, and that within 
an Age or two after the Flood. But he notes, that as they 
are Vulgar, Ijowever they know the King (whom they 
feldom or never fee) is to be paid thegreateft Honour, yet 
they are mov'd much more, powerfully at the fight of his 
Deputies, Colleftors, and other Officers, who are al- 
ways prefent to them, whom they court with Words, Ge- 
^ ftures and Prefents,asexpeaing from them a prefent Good or 
Evil : So the Sons of IJoiih being deprived of the Sight and 
Speech of the Eternal Deity, ftuck not to fall into an 
Admiration and Worfliip of things made by him, efpecial- 
' ly of the Sun, Moon and Earth, which tney found to be 
the Fountains of Li^t, lleat, and all things neceffary for 
the prefer vation of the Life of Men and Animals , mean 
while the Veneration of the true Deity vaniflit. Now, he 
fays, thofe who were fo feated jto the Sun, that.they \Vere 
torc'd to be without him yearly for entire Months, and 
who, inftead of Light and Heat were forced to receive 
'Darknefs, Cold and Ice, fo that neither Earth nor Sea were 
able to produce any thing for the ufe of Men or Animals : 
Thefe 
