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Thefe perfons doubtlefs learnt raoft earneftlf to defire the 
benefits of the Sun and the Earth, and to have the Authors 
of thefe benefits in a greater efteem and honour, than thofe 
to whom the Sun is always equally prefent, and the Earth 
always produces Fruits 5 as it is with the more Southerly 
Inhabitants, who are obferv'd not to have made fo great 
an account of the Sun, or of any of the Gods.] 
He proceeds next to fet forth in order the various names 
of the Sun, (hewing that the Names he has among the 
Greeks., Latins, and other Nations, have their origin 
from the Gothkk Language. Then he tells us of the time 
of the year formerly famous among them for the Feaft of 
the Sun, of their publick mourning at the Sun's departure, 
of their publick rejoycings at his return, of the motion of 
the Sun being (hadowed forth by Fables, of the Sacrifices, 
and finally, of the paffing of thefe Sacred Rites to Foreign 
Nations. To determine rightly concerning the time of the 
year for the Feaft of the Sun, he fays, we muft firft know 
in what part of World the Sun-wor(hip began, and then 
what part of Sweden their Anceftors firft took to Inhabit : 
and here he obferves, that after the Confufion of Babel^ 
Men being difappointed of fecuring chemfelves from ano- 
ther Deluge^ by their Intended Tower, many of them be 
took themfelves to Mountains, and coofeqaently to the 
North, where they had not only a fecure habitation on 
Mountains, but had likewife the conveniencies of porfuirig 
Game by Land, and of Fiftiing 5 the Northern part, as be- 
ing the higheft^ firft growing dry after the Flood, and firft 
generating Animals. And he affirms ScphU to be fo far 
higher than all other Lands, that all the Rivers there rifing 
run into the M^otis^ Fontus Enxinus and ih^ MgyptianSea : 
And he confidently affirms that the Rivers Tanais and Volga. 
were adventur'd on by their Anceftors, it being certain 
they went to the Greeks., Armeniarjs^ Perjians and Indians 
by thofe Rivers^ and that before this going and returning, 
according to their Hiftorians, from the Sources of Tanais 
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