the piiblick Rejoycings for the. Reftoration of Ligbt to tfc 
Northern World, not only all the little Brings and Gover- 
Bours within their Kingdom, but alfo f orciga Kings and 
Tributaries, or fucl\ ^ were any way - obnd:xious to the 
Rings oft the North, were bormd to be prcfenr. 
7hG Rumck Fafii^ he fays, began the year trom that 
day in which the San^, aiter 40 days abfcnce in Erida^nui^ 
Srft ftiin d to thofe that Inhabited the Low I dttds, among 
tht Cimmeriafis t And that the Kings oi the Qmmriani 
leaving the Motherly parts, brought thefe h'ajis with them 
to the Southerly jparts ot Siiede^, even to 4)/?/^/, as the 
moft ready Inftrument for calculating the Year. And he 
here explains at large the'ufe of ttiQ^umck Pajis ^ and 
dbferves that tho the Sun lies hid under the Horizon of the 
Northern Inhabitants for many daysJn the Winter^ yet if 
difplays its Rays of Light: about nodn^ llike al dawning or 
break of day, or as a Beard. ' /'->^,?.rrc ; 
As to the Age of the Rmick Faftr, he fays it may be^ 
ultimately referred to about the. .year ot the World 180G, 
and that thofe i^i^/?/ received their daft per feftion about the 
year of the World 2200; This Seience he fay^ intreafd 
l>y long and diligent Obfervatiofis of thc5un and Moori 
palSng round the Earth : for it was not a labour of a few 
days, ftit of years and ages, by which the names of A- 
thfrn. At las^ Saturn and many more Nothern Men, rofe tc^ 
an Imtiiortal Glory, as under whofehaods a Science To 
excellent and neceflafy grew up 5 asnd thefe Labours bad 
place 500'or 600 years before tht Ttofan War^ as Diodoms^ 
who in his firft fix Books treats profefledly of Affah-s mord 
ancient than the Trojan WaVy feems to have' ownkl 1700^ 
years fince* 
He affures himfelf, he has here let fortb,^ for the great* 
eft part, whatfoever can make fOr the^ Explanation fef the 
'kmkk Fajis *^ 2ir\dL dares aver that no Nation in the 
World has penetrated to that accurate Theory of the Sun 
and Moon before their Anceftor^ but rather that the 
