being fQeri by the Gi^ek Cnrifti^as, thoy faid that tte. 
Crofs among the;$kilful in Hjcroghyphical Charaders fi^- 
nified a tUe .to com^. ^ Xi^is^ind of Croh, Xays^ i^^ 
drawn oii tly^ ' l^apl^d^^ timm, y but as often as we fee' 
this Crpfs there given to Thor^ it wants tlie Ring, andv 
Xhor^s Hammer IS f^gm^i^d hy ill And now the Laploifders 
fever that Ringed Crofs into two parts, making the CxqC% 
or Hammer of Tinn, and the Ring of Braf^, Iron, Ori^ 
chalcum or of Silver, and bear the: I)rHm .with the Ham- 
. mcr, and from the various motions of the Ring leaping-oi^ 
the Drum^ xhQ'f make conjcftures of the events of DifeaCpSi 
the fates of Men, the happy or unhappy ftate of dying 
Perfons after death, of the ftate and conditions of things 
far diftant, and of all other hidden apd abftrufe matters: 
And h« concludes this fecond partof Iiis Atlaniica^in whiqli 
lie took upon him chiefly to confider thef« three, Bodies of 
the tlniverfe, the-Sun, Moon and Earth, after the mannef 
of the Antients, with the words of. the learped Hoperur^ 
in his Themis Hyperborea^ and alfo with thole of the Learn- 
GulieLStieldius t^ thQioxm^t^i^^ whatfoever there 
was of Philofophy among the BHrop^ms, Afiatic\s and Mm 
g)fptiaps^M.ow'd from tl)e Antient Byperhoreans the latter, 
that the Names and likewife the Worlhip of the Gods and 
Goddefles^ame from the North to the Greeks^ and thence 
to the ^omam. r 
> 
Mj^ndon^ Printea ioxSm* Smith mi Benj '.Watfon^ytmt^ 
tpthe Royal Saciety, at the Prmce^ Arms in St ¥anr%- 
Church' J ard^ 1705. 
