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Obfervations in Survey os the Earth. * 69
searchable and stupendicus work, (heweth us in the Tea Set olausMag-
thelikenesseand (hapes, not only of Land-Creatures> ms his ^escrip-
as Elephants,Horses^Dogs,Hog*, Calves, Hares,Snails, Souhern parts
&c. but of Fowls in the Ayr; as Hawks,.Swallows, Vul- of the woria,
Hires,and a number the like ; yea, it affordeth us Men
and Women ; and among men, even the Monk : but
hereof see Junius in his Batavia 5 and if you please, Holland, is to
Alex, ab Alexandra, with some other?/ be seen a Mer-
Neither is itlesTe strange, that the Earth also, os maid’s dead
purpose, as it were, to be even with the £ea, in some bodv hanging
degree ; though it doth not produce living Fisties,yet up*
the shels os divers; and the bodies of some; the re-
sembJances of them, in perfest done it doth : such as
are to be found in divers places of the World : and
particularly, near Verona,in Italy : concerning which,
learned men, that have taken pains to search into the
wonders of nature, have divers conjettures; and do
not agree(as in a thing of such abstruseness,no wonder)
among themselves : but this 1 conceive to be most pro-
bable, that they are bred (not transformed ) in, and
by the earth it self: which is the opinion of divers.
£ome, very learned, are of opinion, that they were
once living creatures : but whether bred therein the
earth, where now found ; or brought thither, out of
the sea, and by what chance,is another question. The
Reader that desireth further satisfastion in this point,
mud have recourse to learned Naturalists,and Philoso-
phers, as Hier. Fracastorius, and others.
Moreover, what inestimable wealth it asfordeth in
Pearls,Coral,Araber,and the like!
By reading,you shall also find what strange Earth-
quakes, re moving of whole Towns,Hills,&c. have been
upon the face os the Earth, railing of it in one place,
leaving Gulfs and Vasiity in another*. And (Lucius Mar-
o'«j,and Sextus Julius, being Consuls in Rome') in the
Coun ry of Mutinum, two Mountains iner, and joyned
themselves together.
In the raign of Kero, Vesiius Marcellm being Over*
K 3 - see*
searchable and stupendicus work, (heweth us in the Tea Set olausMag-
thelikenesseand (hapes, not only of Land-Creatures> ms his ^escrip-
as Elephants,Horses^Dogs,Hog*, Calves, Hares,Snails, Souhern parts
&c. but of Fowls in the Ayr; as Hawks,.Swallows, Vul- of the woria,
Hires,and a number the like ; yea, it affordeth us Men
and Women ; and among men, even the Monk : but
hereof see Junius in his Batavia 5 and if you please, Holland, is to
Alex, ab Alexandra, with some other?/ be seen a Mer-
Neither is itlesTe strange, that the Earth also, os maid’s dead
purpose, as it were, to be even with the £ea, in some bodv hanging
degree ; though it doth not produce living Fisties,yet up*
the shels os divers; and the bodies of some; the re-
sembJances of them, in perfest done it doth : such as
are to be found in divers places of the World : and
particularly, near Verona,in Italy : concerning which,
learned men, that have taken pains to search into the
wonders of nature, have divers conjettures; and do
not agree(as in a thing of such abstruseness,no wonder)
among themselves : but this 1 conceive to be most pro-
bable, that they are bred (not transformed ) in, and
by the earth it self: which is the opinion of divers.
£ome, very learned, are of opinion, that they were
once living creatures : but whether bred therein the
earth, where now found ; or brought thither, out of
the sea, and by what chance,is another question. The
Reader that desireth further satisfastion in this point,
mud have recourse to learned Naturalists,and Philoso-
phers, as Hier. Fracastorius, and others.
Moreover, what inestimable wealth it asfordeth in
Pearls,Coral,Araber,and the like!
By reading,you shall also find what strange Earth-
quakes, re moving of whole Towns,Hills,&c. have been
upon the face os the Earth, railing of it in one place,
leaving Gulfs and Vasiity in another*. And (Lucius Mar-
o'«j,and Sextus Julius, being Consuls in Rome') in the
Coun ry of Mutinum, two Mountains iner, and joyned
themselves together.
In the raign of Kero, Vesiius Marcellm being Over*
K 3 - see*