i 106 y) 
^or i^e^p St^|?vs^5^V. neenidiffblving pf mkkh fey tlie growing 
^arm^h, towarcls the erjd of AfHarius^ mmy Rivers are 
ever/r where difcovei:*d. The Mgypiam caiinot claim this 
Sign to themfelves, becaufe the Inundation of the Nile 
bqgi^is with the Ingrefs of the Sun into Cancer^ and iscom- 
pleaied in 100 days^ nor have they any Rains, or very 
rarely. In otherCountries towards the South, 
Syrky Itdy and Sf^w^ where-ever Snow falls, it prefently 
while the Sun is in Capricorn. The Sign Pifces h 
nipft aptly plac'd next, becaufe affoon as the fattifti fruit- 
ful moifture ot the melted Snpw, from various Places of 
the Lands, fubfides and flows to the Ponds and Torrents, 
the Fiflies, draw^i by its fweetnefs, betak« themfelves to 
the Shores, and growing luftful, there engender : and their 
ancient Country-men oMerv'd this time of the year as moft 
proper for Fi(bing3 whereas the Mgyptians take Fifti chief* 
ly when the Ni/e overflows, viz. in the months of June 
and Jufjfy and;erpecially in Novewhir: therefore they could 
not be the Invejiters of this Sign. The fourth place is 
given to Aricst which Sign denotes the time, when the 
Snows being melted, Sheep, Goats, Swine and the like, 
are put to feed abroad. Now, this reafon can fcarce bold 
in any other Country, efpecially Southern 5 for in Ger- 
many Cattel feed abroad almoft all the Winter, and foin 
Afyria^ JEgypt^ &c. Taurus is aptly made the fifth Sign, 
anfwering to the midfl: of Aprils and the midft of May, 
becaufe Cows and the like cannot be fent out to Paftures 
till the Grafs is pretty high, which in their Country is not; 
till the laid months^ near the Summer Nor can the 
Southern Countries claim this reafon, for with them, from 
February and March, and in Greece^ Italy, Spain, Judea 
and Mgyptf all kinds of Iferds may live abroad all thp year. 
And by this §ign of the Bull, Antiquity, wjDuldointimate^ 
that at this tinie the Earth is Plowed and Sawn with 
Barley, which in Gernmy isufually done in the month of 
March J and in judca mi JEgypt it's now in Ear. The 
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