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tke place greW to that bignefs, and povv- 
er, it had at the time when Rom was 
built ? To which Ages, if we fhall add 
that time, which palfcd from laying the 
firftfedimertt of the Folaterran Hillock, 
to the time when the fame was relin- 
quifh't by the Sea, and the Aliens there 
fetled, we lliall eafily come up to the ve¬ 
ry times of the Univerfal Deluge. 
The fame authority of Hiftory will 
Bot let us doubt, that thofe vaft Bones, 
which are digg’d up out of the Jretine 
fields, have lafted 1900. Years * it being 
certain^ i. That the Skuls of labouring 
Beafts, found there, are not of Animals 
of this Climat, as neither are thole huge 
Thigh-bones, and long Shouider-bladesj 
met with in the fame place, s. That An- 
nibal pafs’d there, before he gave Battel 
to the Romms at the Lake of Thrdfmene. 
3. That in his Arimy there were Ajrkan 
Beafts, and huge Turret-bearing Ele¬ 
phants . 4. That, when he came down 
the Hills, there perifli’d by the 
Waters in the Marifhes the greateft part 
of the loden Animals. 5.That the place, 
whence the faid Bones are digg’d,' was 
heaped up by various Beds, that are full. 
