in the Scalds^ and their Hiftories he was fhadowed forth by 
Fogelen Fanin^ that is, the Bird Funina : And that when 
this Fable came to the Gm^/, of the name hamna they 
made Vhcsmx^ zonz^xmwz, tlie Age of which there is a 
neral contention, l^l'my counts 660 years tor the (pace 01 
hislih% fometiraes 640, fometi'mes 360- Qvld and Herodo- 
nis 50© years, LaSdntius 1000, Sobinus .^^o, Vojjhis from 
Tacitus 1461, Johr/jioniis from Albertus 350, Sal ma fins 300, 
Tzetzes computes 7006 days tor his age. But a Scald, a 
Poet of theirs, defines the age of the Bird Famna, or the 
Fhceriixj to be 3 o days md Fnri a Scald 'm&Kcs three 
differing fpaces of his life, one ot goo years, another of 
1461, another of 6940 : the years here being to be taken 
for days, after-the moft ancient Cuftom. And \vhereas the 
fifft Age of the P/^ii^^/x is (aid to be 300 days, and 
that he 1 yes hid as dead 65 days, this denotes that the 
Sun is feen each year by the Qmm^ruins, at 69 degrees 
latitude, 300 days, and that he is wanting 65 days. 
The ad way computes 1461 years, or rather days, which 
iBuft be thus underftood ^ the Sun not clearly returning each 
ye^r to the fame point of Time, or of the Heavens, and 
flower than expefted from the Eaft, they found it neceflary 
to gather one day from thofc littie parts of Time, and to 
add it to each fourth year, which they call the Leap-year, 
explicating this little (lay, in the Fable, by fomewhat a 
larger deach of i\\^Vh(Bnix^ or a more flow than fit genera- 
tion of the Vermicle from the Afbes. For a clearer 
proof of this, 5^65 days 4, times numbred, make 1460^, ' to 
which if )^ou add that one day inferred, the whole will Be 
1461. The third way giving 40 days to the Age. -of the 
Vhmnix^ depends on this 5 that they faw the Sun returti to 
himielf various days and hours of the increafing or decrea- 
fing Moon, till 19 years had part, which being over, the 
pomtsof rifiiig and leering returned to their former moments 
of times \ hence therefore, that is. from 365 days nineteen 
times repeated, and gather d into one iumm, and alfo the 
