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muft necelTarily bemoft refrefliing in the Hottcft Seafons* 
by reafon of the Exclufion of the Sun- Beams, and by rea- 
fon of the Body of Stone or Earth over their H^ads ; as 
ftiay be manifeftly experimented here in Churches Vault- 
ed with Stone, and much more in Vaults under Ground. 
Thefe Caverns in probability invited the Natives there to 
ftielter thenxlelves, and that might put fome of the bet^- 
ter fort, or the Princes, tomake ufeof Art, to fit and 
make them more convenient for Ufe, and by degrees for 
Ornament, and by further Degrees for Religious or Su- 
perftitious Ufes ; for fuch we are inform'd were the Pla- 
ces where the Sybilline Oracles were delivered, and by 
degrees for Sepulture, fuch as the Guanches in Teneriff 
have appropriated to their Anceftors, and fiich as che 
Egyptians made ufe of for Repofitories of their Mum- 
meys and fuch alfo feem to have been the Wells and 
Grottoes for the Mummeys, the Labyrinths and the Sub- 
terranean Temples of ^gypt, Nos^ as the natural Subter« 
raneous Caves feem to have been the Occafion of all 
theft artificial ones, and their Embelifliments under the 
Ground, fo the great Rocks, Mafles of Stone and 
Mountains, feem to have given the Occafion of fliaping 
and cutting of thiem into (everal Forms, for feveral De- 
figns; filch I conceive were the Rocks ftiaped into a 
Sphynxes Head in Mg^pt^ and the Two Rows of Rooms 
on Two Sides of a Square for the great Pyramid; and 
the cafing of fuch a lhaped Rock with Aftiker or Blocks 
of other Stone, made the great Pyramid it felf. Now 
in Probability this Pradice was from Mgypt fpread far 
and near into the Eaft, together with Idolatry, Super- 
ftition, and other Heathenifti Rites and Cuftoms, and 
there are, it fecms, many Relids of them remaining to 
this Day in thefe Places. But befides thefe Remainders 
of Antiquity in thefe Weftern Parts, of Afia ^nA JEgypt^ 
we find they were not wanting in the Eaft^rnmofl Parts 
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