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the duration of the state of innocence; 
the animals some how or other, (quo- 
dammodo) understood Hebrew, and then 
relates a fable of the Greeks, from Philo 
de confusione Linguazum, who thought 
that they talked at that time, and that 
this was the reason, why Eve was not 
frightened, when the serpent spoke to 
her. Ay oe: 
JOHN LERIUS, BURGUNDUS. 
In his Hist. Navigat.. in Brasiliam 
says, that after Joshua had routed the 
Canaanites, that it is probable from their 
terrcr, that they took shipping and be- 
came the ancestors, of the Americans. 
HERRERA, 
In the Hist. Gener. Ind. dec. i. ib. 9, 
¢. 4. p. 296. says, that the old inhabi- 
tants of Cuba had a tradition that 
Noah’s curse upon that son, from whom 
shey descended, was that they should be 
tude, particoloured, and walk on foot, 
naked: while those, whom he blessed, 
were to have cloaths, ride on horseback, 
&c. 
CHRYSOSTOM—THEOPHY LACT—LACTAN= 
TIUS. 
These writers contend, that the world 
is of the shape house, because Scrip- 
ture calls it a tabernacle, and that it is 
impossible, that the sky can reach to the 
Antarctic pole, and southern and western 
regions! See Chrysost. Hom. 14 and 
27 in Heb. Gand 13 in Genes. and 12 
ad pop. Antioch. Theophyl. in Heb. '8. 
Lactan. Firmian. iit. drvin. Justit. c. 24. 
MAIOLUS. 
Maiolus in his Dies Canicul. i. Com. 
Coeilog. 23. p. 520. et seg. et collog. 18. 
p- 404. & seg. ef p. 422. and Aloys, 
Gada must. Navigat. 55. say, that there 
are moniutains of loadstone, which draw 
the nails out of ships, as in the story of 
Sinbad. . : 
PENEDA—LEIRNUS LEMNIUS—GEROPIUS 
BECANUS—=JOWN BAPTISTA PIUS— 
CHLIUS CALGAGNINUS<\AND ‘STE- 
PHENS. 
Ail these writers maintain that in the 
Mercator of. Plautus, the versoria in the 
compass need not be confuted. 
EKIPPINGIUS. 
In his Antig. Roman.-l. 4. ¢. 4. p. 
732. upon the following line of Horace: 
“ Seu nialis vetita legibus alea—says, Alea, 
ad est chartulis pictis !. ludere. Thus, in 
a treatise upon Roman antiquities, mak- 
ing the Romans acquainted with playing 
cards ! . . 
JAMES THE FIRST. © 
~ In Ins Reg. Donwn lib. $. persuades 
his son, Hesiry Prince of Wales not to 
play at chess, because it required close 
attention, which was opposite to the 
principle of play, which ought to be re- 
laxation, bat to indulge in cards wheré 
chance prevailed, and there was no art 
or diligence requisite. An excellent 
piece of advice in education ! 
MALVENDA. 
Tn his tract de Antich. itt. 6. 15. mains 
tains that, the whole sea is not only na« 
vizable, but Aus been navigated. - 
_ CRANZIUS. 
He says that in the north beyond Greens 
land, the sea becomes innavigable in a 
day’s voyage, because “ the ends_of the 
world becoming dark before them, im- 
mane abyssi barathrum reperitur? 
JUSTUS LIPSIUS—BASIL, PONTIUS. 
Say, that two-headed eagles exactly 
like those of the Romans, were efligiated 
in many houses and gates at Chili in 
Peru. They were idols. 
BAPTIST, FULGORIUS—PETER MEXIA. 
Say, that ships’ almost rotten with 
damp, have been tound upon the tops of 
very high mountains, far inland. Fu/gor. 
Rer. Memor.c. 6. Mexia in Sylea var. 
Lect. p.2. c. 13. See also Alex. lib. 5. 
Gen. c. 9. Maiol. Collog. 0.1. p.6. § 18. 
, COLUMBUS. '. 
Pet. Mariyr. Dec. Nov. Orb. 1. 3.. 
says, that he had often beard Columbus 
say, that, when he landed at Hispaniola, 
he had found Ophir. 
GREGOR. LOPEZ. SS 
He writes, that the people of Sophala, 
a place in the extremity of Africa, at the 
Ethiopian sea, abounding in gold mines, 
have books written in the Indian tongue, 
which say, that Solomon every third year 
fetched gold from thence : and that they 
have mines still called by his name. 
PHALLUS. 
It is singular, that this indelicate a 
mulet of the Greeks and Romans was 
found suspended round the necks of the 
Mexcians. Redin. Demon. l. S. c. T5. 
Theatr. Vit. Human. 0. 17. 1. i.p. $114. 
So also the Indians adored the Phallus. 
NIMROD. 
He is usually supposed to have been a 
hunter. But some Glossarists, Hugo, Lau- 
rentius, &c. render the passage in Gene- 
sis “ Nembroth, a stout hunter im the 
presence of the Lord,” an oppressor of 
men by the permission of God. See 
Jo. Solorzani de Indiur. Jure, l. di. c. xi, 
Do; 2OM 35 eae ‘oe 
~ BARONIUS. ~ . 
He asserts, Annals, i. ann. 39. as do 
Suarez and others, that Christ converted 
tne Gentiles during the three years he 
preached at Jerusalem, and elsewhere. © 
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