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gall Ketius, Vran-kolle, Bme, Bariki h ^"cl this is the firft to 
whom their Anccftors afcribe the firft torm of Swedifh Go- 
vernment. - 
' Eeing convinced of a Gigantick Race of Men, by many 
vaft Skeletons he had found in. Sepulchral Monuments, he 
gives inftances of feveral Giants of a vaft Stature, who a* 
bout the time of Alexander the Great grew lefs, the Goths 
about that time returning from South Scythian or Turkey 
and Afidy being men of a leffer ftature, and caufing a mix- 
ture of divers Nations ^ and he thinks he may fafely fay, 
that before the times of Chrift, the Men of their Country 
were 5 or 6 of their Ells in height, w^hich he confirms by 
many Teftimonies. 
Speaking of their Cum£^ which lyes beyond the Balticky 
over agaihft PhUgra, he fays it was known formerly for 
horrible Magick, and the Impoftures of Witches 5 where 
Vlyjfes and JEneas were feduc'd, confulting the old Fate- 
telling Cum£an Sihyl^ call'd the Prophetefs of HelJ, becaufe 
fhe liv'd in the remoteft part North, as it were in a Sub- 
terraneous place : This Sibyl being different from the C»- 
m£an Sibjl of Italy, 
Having (hewn in his former Volumes, that the Crofe 
.was in ufe in the firft times, and cut in moft of their 
«i/V^ Monuments • this he fays Intimated to Pofterity, that 
in thofe Tombs were laid the Bones of Commanders, and 
Men famous for Valour both by Sea and Land, who, 
while alive, with a vigorous Arm managed the Club ol 
Thor or Jupiter^ made like a Crofs. 
The eleventh Chapter treats of the form of Government 
of the Atlanticks, under Saturn^ and his Expedition. Here 
the Author, after a long fearch into the origin of the 
word Chetim, finds . that as fome call'd thQ Goths^ Gathiy 
Gythdd^ Get<e^ fo they calFd their Land Gutheim^ Gythi^ 
am, Chetim -^ whence he thinks he has made it plain that 
Chitim^ the Son of Javan^ Grandfon of Japheth^ and Great 
Grandfon 
