(20^8) 
.of Harveft, . in their Auguft, Now this caRnot be 
affigaed to Mgyft AjfyrU, th^y their Haveftin 
Aprils May diV)A June :^ and the -Smi^x, Italidfis and Sf aw- 
ards do it a whole month before the North, Libra^ the 
tenth Sign is aptly joyned to the foregoing, anfwering to 
the months of September and OSober, becaufe after Husband- 
men had .gathered a plentiful Harveft, and Thr^flit out 
fome Corn,tbey commenced Fairs^ and changing their Goods, 
get Salt, 'Flefti and Fifli for their Corn, all which things 
are done by the jB«2/^//^:.e, or Scales, as may be feen in the 
moft antient Laws of their Country. And therefore at 
this day in the MeCiopolis of Sweden^ Stockholm^ and elfe- 
w li ere, the greateft i^^/r/ throughout the Kingdom are 
lyearly kept about this time, for fiich changes ^ whereas in 
other ''Countries he fcarce thinks fuch a Merchandizing, 
by change of Corn, proper at this time, their Harvefts be- 
dng gathered long before. The eleventh Sign is the Scor- 
Ifi'orj^ an Animal infamous for ftinging and killing : By 
this the Ancients would intimate, that the power of the 
Sun and Earth was now wholly become dead ^ the Sun in 
the fartheft parts Sweden lying hid under the Horizon for 
many whole days and nights together, the Earth being 
Frozen, and coverM with Snow, producing no Fruits, and 
fo lying as a dead Carcafs. Now, with the Mgyptians 
and Ajjyrtans Fruits, and Plants are at this time at their 
chief growth, for in January or February their ftanding 
Corn begins to (hoot forth into Ears. The Twelfth Sign 
is; Sagittarins, becaufe that time in the North is fitted for 
Hunting, the Snow there fallen at that time being but thin 
and unfrozen5lo that they clearly (how the footftcps of wild 
Beads, and give a free paffage to Hunters in the Woods : 
Whereas in the months of January and Febrmry^ fo great 
Sno;v^3 fall, that they make Hunting very uneafy and dif- 
^cult.' Nor can tliQ JEgyptians, or AJjf)rians affert the In- 
.yention of this Sign to themfelvds^ Snows being in a man- 
ner unknown to them, and rare in Lalj and Greece, and 
' ■ ' '^'^ fall 
