( 344 ; 
in a Flamejand which prefcntly would receive its native 
Verdare,at which his Coolyes were afrighrned In a Third 
he takes notice of Frogs of a prodigious Magnitude, as 
alfo of a Tree called the Nury-tree, which always BloP- 
foms in the Night, and flieds them (oon after Sun Rifing. 
He defcribes alfo the Moor Priefts, their Mosks and Ser- 
vice in them ; and laft of all his Arrival at Bmhaim, 
whence he dates his Letter, Sept. zz. 1675. 
Tis very remarkable in thefe Letters, that the Au- 
thor has given us fo many Inftances of thofe Prodigious 
Works ot Antiquity, of cutting fuch vaft Temples or 
Rooms out of the natural Rock, which fecms to have 
much out-lafted the Hiftory of the Authors of them, 
and poffibly all other Heathen Hiftory the Grandure 
and Magnificence of them feeming to fpeak them to 
have been of the firft, and now unknown Ages of the 
World, fuch as were alfo the Pyramids of /^gypt^ and 
the Labyrinths, concerning which we have no true Re- 
cords, but only fbme conjectural Fidions, or groundlefs 
Traditions. But indeed of the two, thefe Subterraneous 
Cavities feem to be of the greateft Antiquity and Poffibly 
to have given occafion to conftrucS; the Superterranean 
Fabricks, for 'tis probable that the Heat of the Climate 
where they were firft begun, and the natural Cavities 
in the Mountains and Rocks might adminifter the firfl 
Occafion of the artificial making of them, and that was 
in Probability firfl done by the Ethiopians ^ who were 
the Inflrudtors and Tutors to the Egyptians^ from whom 
they received their Hieroglyphicks, as is reflified by Di- 
oJorm Siculus. Now the /Ethiopians inhabiting a Cli- 
mate To very hot, could not well tolerate the Mid-day- 
Heats, without flbeltering themfelves under the Shade of 
fome Trees or Rocks, till the Violence thereof was aba- 
ted • and that Country, efpecially the Higher j^thiopia^ 
affording many natural Caverns in the Mountains, which 
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