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Plants in general were wholly overwhelmed with ice and 
Snow 5 and therefore they jadg'd this fo genera! a reft pf 
all things very much to refemble, not only Death, but 
even Nothing itfelf : For whatfoerer is void of Motion in 
thefe Earthly things, can neither change itfelf, nor pro- 
duce any other thing. Therefore they made Ja% by which 
they faw the Earth and Waters converted into moft hard 
and immovable Rocks, and all the warmth of the Air, 
and the life of the reft of things to be extinguifht and de- 
ftroy'd,as the Mother, Matter, and Firft Principle in proda-^ 
cing all things. And when upon the Sun's return they faw 
the Ice, how hard foever, to be melted and refolv'd into 
Water by the force of Heat,they looktupon Heat, as a Prin- 
ciple endued with a great power of acting and moving, 
( but foreign, and coming from the Southern World to the 
North) becaufe being joyn*d with Ice, their Northern 
and Domeftick Principle, it produced Water, which, after 
this manner, they not unfitly call'd, the Daughter of 
Ice* Again, as Water, whether it flow'd over the Earth, 
or ftagnated, or were kept in a Vcffel, alwaysdepos'd fome 
thin or grofs Mud to the bottom^ fo they caird Earth the 
Daughter of Water : And feeing Plants and Fruits to 
grow from Earth a little dry'd, they caird thefe the 
Daughters and Offfpring of the Earth, and aflign'd other 
rifes to other things. Now he fays the Southern World 
could not pretend from their own Invention, to excogitate 
fuch a rife of things, they having no ground in Nature 
for it, but had it from the North, it being teftified not 
only by their ^^W/, but likewife by oth^r Writers, rhic 
whatfoever Or^/^e///, Hejiod and Homer (ay concerning the 
crigine of the Gods, they had ic thence : He advifes us 
alfo to note, that men ftudious of Natural Knowledge an^ 
Aftronomy began to be call'd by the names of thofe things 
whofe Nature, Motion, or Powers they fearcht into.^ 
wholly after the fame manner as MHndilfdrHs was faid to 
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