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five dies IntercaUres^ or Inferted days ( for fo nunyin a 
manner ought to be numbred within the'fpace of time ) 
being added to that funm, a certain new fpace of Life, 
viz. of 6940 days arifes to the Pho^mxy in this Fable ot our 
Anceftors. And he does not wonder that other Writers 
have generally err'd from this true account of time, becaufe 
tiiey feem neither to have known the Fable itfelf, nor the ac- 
count of years whence this Age of thePA^r/z/x is raanifefted. 
He fays, it faasal ways been accounted a thing very agree* 
able to the purpofe of the Scalds and Poets, in their Fiftions, 
to compofe of the parts of fevepl Bodies, thofe things 
whofe Attributes, or Offices they faw differing : Therefore 
they made a Plough-man with a Man's Head and an Ox*s 
Body 5 becaufe in Ploughing a Man drovean Ox before the 
Plough- fharc : And compofed a Horfeman of a Horfe and 
a Man, and a Seaman of a Man and a Fi(h 5 that we may 
know him to be a guider of an Horfe in the Field, this of and 
a Ship in the Sea. As therefore they made Neptune of a Man 
and a Fifh. fo they did Jupiter^ tho Father of the Earth or 
Country, of a Man and an Ox, as a good Plough-man 5 
and Mar^, of a Man and a Horfe : And wholly the fame 
way is kept in forming the Images of the Coeleftial Bodies, 
to whofe both motion and nature the Authors of Fables 
nioft diligently attended. And the Art and Induftry of the 
Scalds fhews itfelf particularly in this, that^hey undertook 
fo to compofe and adjuft the Lives and famous Acts of their 
Heroes^ with the Nature, Virtues and Motion of the Coe- 
leftial and Terreftial Bodies 5 that on a due application, we 
may be no lefs able thence to learn the Genuine Nature and 
difpofitionof thefe, than the Hiftoryof thofe ; All Learn- 
ing, according to the way of thofe times, for certain rea- 
fonp^ feeming to have been involv'd in Fables. 
Olaui 
