5^4- 3\(^atural Hiflory 
lis, whichBuxtorf faith the Rabbins called D'Sip n»3 ^^//z^^w ^o/ij''; 
of which more hereafter when I come into thzt County ; and into 
Kent^ whereof Kits-coty-houfe^ which I take to be Antiquity 
of the fame kind. 
103. That the Britanslong before the arrival of the Romans^ 
were acquainted with the Greeks^ has fufficiently I guefs been 
made appear already, 66. of this Chapter ; and that long be- 
fore that they were known to the Phdenicians^ and all the Ea^lern 
Countries, is plain out of Straho \ and Bochartus \ and by com- 
parifon of the Learning and Religion of the Druids, with thofe of 
the Indian Brachmans, Now that it was the ancient cuftom of all 
the Greeks tofetup unpolifi' djiones inftead of Images, to the ho- 
nor of their Gods, we have the teftimony of Paufanias in thefe 
words, 6 ^'^ 'Tm^AoAOIfQ^ , ^ TO?S W(7IV EPAgo-/, iii^s SgfitJV oIptx clycLX/J^ 
sT^v apyi A/rSot \ 7, e. that unhewn Jiones amongft all the Grcecians, 
had the honor of Gods inftead of Images ^ more particularly the 
fame Author afferts, that near the Statue of Mercury there were 30 
fquare ftones, reredyDvoi ^i^i Te«a>(pj/Ta, which the Fbarii worfhipt, 
and gave to every one of them the name of a God"". 
1 04. That the Arabians and Paphians alfo worChip'd fuch like 
Gods, is likewife witnefTed by Maximum Tyrv^6, AqcICqi dQ^ai py, 
QVnvot,^ svK oT^' aja-Ajt^o gTJbi', A/6©. ZuJ TgTfayyp©*. Paip/ois^ A- 
i. e. that the Arabians worfliip'd he fcarce knew what God , but 
that he faw amongft them was only a fquare flone ; and that the 
Faphians worftiip'd Venus under the reprefentation of a vphite 
Pyramid, 
105. And Herodian defcribing the Worjhip of HeUgabalus at 
Emefa in Phoenicia, faith, that he had no kind of Image after the 
modern Greek, or Roman falhion made by mens hands, ^'6©* 
H Tii ^ It^yiej'©^, Jtjt'TBtfS'gy i^^gprij, TJiyov eU o^WTgla, 5t<wvo«5^s o^/TStT *> 
z. e. but a ^r^^/ round at the bottom, and leflening by de- 
grees toward the top, after the manner of a Cone, To which 
add, that Peter della Valle, in his late Travels into the Indies, 
faith, that at Ahmedahad there was a famous Temple of Mahadeu, 
wherein there was no other Image but a little column of ftone af- 
Job. Btixtorfii Lex.Talmud-inv Marhplis. SirahoymGeogra^ki^e-, Hb.%p(ig.\'i%. Edit. Jf- C a fault. 
Paris, z^n. 1620. ^ Sam. Bocharti Geog.Saer. part. 2,. lilf - \. cap. ' llcfjimnis A ^^mK^. pag. 22^. Edit. 
Silburg. ^Ibidem. Max TyriiDiJJert.PkiloJoph.i%, p Edit. Da7t. Hei72f!i. " Herodiani Hiflo- 
riar.lib. 5. pag. \\\. Edit. Hen- Stephant. 
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