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under these smaller Hills did to theirs?

But we cannot doubt-this may' be done,when we are well allured that the like hathbeen done. For the greatest and highestRidge of Mountains in the World, the Andes°f Fern , have been for some hundreds ofLeagues in length violently shaken, and ma-ny alterations made therein by an Earth-quake that happened in the year 1646. men-tioned by Kircher in his Area tfoœ, from theLetters of the Jesuits. And FUny tells us ofhis own knowledge, that the Alps and Ap-Pennine have often been shaken with Earth-quakes : Exploratum eft mihi Alpes Apenni-numjue fæpius tremuifte , lib.a. cap 80. Naymore then all this, we read that in the timeof the Emperour Valentinian the first, therewas an Earthquake that shook ail the knownWorld. Whilst this Innovator, [that is Fro-copiui\ was yet alive (faith Amm. Marcelli -nushb.x6. cap. 14.) Horrendi tremor es peromnem orlis ambttum graftati funtsubito, ij(ta-les nee fabulœ, nec veridiceenobis ant imitatesexponunt . Paulo en'tm post lucis exortum

denfitate prtevia fulgurum acrius vibratormntremefafta concutitur cmnis terreni stalilitasfonder is, manque dispulfum retro fluBibus c-volutis abscejftt , ut reseda voragine prof undo-dorum species nat ant turn multiformes limo cor-ner entur h<e rentes, valliumque vaftitates (0

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