(io8) 
undertook to write and celebrate the A- 
dions of renown*d Menjaiid not the won¬ 
ders of Nature. Mean time we want 
the Rccords,quoted by Authors,of thofe 
that have written the Hiftory of Changes 
fallen out in divers places 5 and lince o- 
thpr Writers, whofe Monuments have 
been prpferv'd, do fpeak of and reckon a- 
mong ProdigiesjEarthquakes,Eruptions 
of Fires, Inundations of Rivers and Seas, 
as happen’d aim oft every year 5 *tis evi¬ 
dent, that in 4000 Years there have hap>> 
pen’d many and various Mutations. So 
that thofe do much miftake, who affirm, 
that in the writings of the Antients there 
are many errors,becaufefforfoothil there 
mtaHr^hat of^ur many things in them 
h dijlonmt in ditfonant from the modern 
Geography. I would not 
mUm , pn- give Credit to thele relations, 
faifi. which are fabulous in Anti- 
ent Writers 5 but there are many things 
to be met with in them, which alfo I 
would not disbelieve* For, of that kind 
I there find divers things, whofe, falfity 
rather,than verity feems dubious to me; 
fuch as are, That the Mediterranean Sea 
was fever d from the Wsfiern Ocean 5 That 
