i ^ Of the Chaos

montium , ut opinart dabatur , suspicerent radi-os folis quos primigenia rerum sub immcuftgurgitibus amandavit , &c. that is, HorridEarthquakes suddenly raged all the World o-ver, the like whereto neither Fables nor trueAntiquities ever acquaint us with, or makemention of. For loon after break of day re-doubled smart and violent slalhes of Light'ning preceding , the stable and ponderousmats of,the whole Earth was Ihaken andmade to tremble; and the Sea with revolvedwaves was driven backwards, and forced lofar to recede, that the bottom of the greatDeeps and Gulfs being discovered, multiformSpecies of Fillies forsaken by the water wereseen lying on the Mud : and thole vast Val-leys and Mountains which the primigenialNature had funk; deep and concealed underimmense waters (as we had reason to think),saw the Sunbeams. Wherefore many Shipsresting upon the dry ground , the Marinerswandring carelesty up and down throughthe small reliques of the waters, that theymight gather up Fishes and other things withtheir hands; The Sea-waves, being as itwere grieved with their repulse, rile up a-gain, and making their way backwardthrough the fervid Shallows, violently, dash-ing against the islands and extended Shoresot the Continents, threw down and levelled

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