and Creation.

Z> A Land so distinguished Into Moun-tains, Valleys and Plains is also most conve-| nient for the entertainment of the varioussorts ol Animals, which God hath created,some whereof delight in cold, some in hot,some moist and watery, some in dry andupland places, and fonje of them could nei-ther find nor gather their proper food in dif-ferent Regions. Some Beasts and Birds wefind live upon the highest tops of the Alps,and that all the Winter too, while they areconstantly covered with Snow, as the Ibex,and Rupicapra or Chamois among Quadru-peds, and Lagopus among Birds.

4. The Mountains are most proper for theputting forth ot Plants ; yielding the great-est variety, and the most luxuriant sons ofVegetables, for the maintenance of the Ani-mals proper to those places, and tor Medi-cinal Uses, partly also for the exercise anddelight of such ingenious persons as are ad-dicted to search out and collect those start-tl£ s, to contemplate and consider their Formsa nd Natures, and to admire and celebratethe Wisdom of their Creator.

All manner of Metals, Minerals andif they could be generated in a levelof which there is some question, yet°^ld they be dug or mined for, the DelssNecessarily be so flown with Warer,D 3 (wh'ch