He tell's us, as the Priefts of the Earth Were hovthd 
to caftrate themfelves with Knives of Stone or Flint, in 
honour of the Sun s paffing under the Earth, and having 
depos'd his Power of generating in the North 5 fo they 
were bound to cut their Hair and (have themfelves in 
honour of the Earth, be it of Flowers, Leaves and the 
reft of its Ornaments : And tho* the Chaldeans^ Greeks 
and Egyptians obferv'd the fame Rites, yet the Priefts 
themfelves, to whom the care of thefe Sacred Myftcries 
were committed, fcarce underfkood what they meant, 
andfo they owad them to be rather Foreign than Do- 
meftick Rites. 
He fays, they have a Fable which tells us, the Deity 
of the Earth wafhes herfelf in the River Almon^ on the 
6th of the Calends of April 5 for at that time their Earth 
throughout fwims, as it were, with Floods, which the 
Snow melted by degrees by the heat of the Sun, dif- 
>fufes thro all places, and Rains fometimes fo encrcafe 
them, that no part of their Earth may be accounted free 
from them 5 and the Gothkk, Language call thefe Land 
floods, Almanne-flod^ that is, anunivcrfel Deluge, whence , 
the Latins have made Almonem Fluvium : The word 
Alman^ fignifying Univerfal, Common, Publick. 
He tells us. That Eemer^ Pliny^ Herodotus and others, 
cd\\ thQ Hyperborean themoft Wife, Juft and Prudent of 
Mankind, and that Plutarch fays, a Man may there much 
more fuccefsfully advance himfelf in the Study of Afiro- 
nomy in a month, than elfe where in a very long fpace of 
time. 
The Seventh Chapter treats concerning the Rape of 
Pr^yer|>/W, and of the firft coming of Ore/ into Sweden. 
Here the Author fets forth, that in the Southerly parts of 
the World AgricultHrz always fiourilbt, Fr^iits alfo in ma- 
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