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and Volga they came to the Finland Coaft, and having 
made a circuit about thofc Ifly Sboars of Finlartd^ they 
made a deftent upon the Land itfelf, and ftopt not till ihey 
polleft themfelves of the higheft Mountains ot that Country. 
He adds, that all the Fables of their Anceftors concerning 
their Gods, that is, concerning the 5//;/, Moon^ Earthy Sa- 
inrn^ Jupiter^ Mercury^ and others ot their Kings, or of 
the mort famous Mountains, to which the Names of their 
Kings formerly Inhabiting them are left, readily evince 
that the firft and moft ancient Seats of their Anceftors which 
came thither, were in the Traft and Mountains beyond the 
Toron£fij. And the prsecipitation of the Sun and Moon in- 
to Bridanus (which he Interprets the Baltick) Celebrated 
by fo many Writers, and alnaoft all the Poets, can agree to 
no place but thefe very Mountains, and confequentfy it 
afligns fo certainly and firmly to their Anceftors, the Au- 
thors of this Fable, their Seits in thofe Mountains, that 
this reafon alone is convincing with him. To which if 
we joyn the Teftimony of the Rumcl^ Calender^ cut on 
Sticks, it will appear that this very Calender was firft In- 
Tented, and began to be cut in thofe' places, fince in Z)p^ 
Und^ and the lower part* of their Country fuch a thing 
could not be excogitated with due fuccefs. And as to thefe 
Calenders J they lye under a miftake who have afcrib'd the 
Invention of them to the Danes; and Southern Smdes, 
which he affirms to be due to the Cimmerians^ the moft 
Nor?^herly Nation of Sweden., from whom the Sun is taken 
away in the Winter time for 40 days together. In giving 
an account of the form* of the Runic\ talend.crs^ he pre- 
fents us with many Cuts of them, which in a Scheme he 
compares with the Calenders^ and accounts of Times, of 
the Romans^ Greeks^ JEgjptianSy and others, in which he is 
very large ^ and thinks he has found out, from the motions 
^of the Sun and Moon, the age and firft origine of the Rh* 
mc Fajis, atid fo not only the firft time of the Norths be- 
pg inhabited, but lifcewife* ti^e day that MnnUHf arm bcgftn 
to 
