os the World. zc>»

From which it appears, that this sinking

n d demersion of Buildings into the Earth is

I* Manifest sign of their Antiquity, which is

0 Much the greater, by how much the deep-

, r diey are lunk. So, for example, at Bono-

fi in Italy, many of the ancient Gates of the

j y > which the Bolognese call Torresotti ,

re v ery deeply lunk, which is a certain ar-

^Ment of their Antiquity, and thence it ap-

J e ars to be true that Histories relate, that

? e y were built in the time of S. Tetrmus ,

/^t ixoo Years ago. But here it is to be

?Md, that other things agreeing, thole are

ee per depresled that are built in lower pla-

, c ' s than those in higher, for the reason a-

j Ve-said- So at Bononia, that old Port cal-

II tor refit to di S. Ceorgio , is deeplier

pried, or landed up, than that which is cal-

II Torrefotto di Stra Castilione, because

pt is situated in a lower place, and there-

;° re the Earth is more easily railed up about>t.

. 4- The fame is affirmed by Architects,"o when they dig their Foundations, do e-.. er y*where in plain places first of all removen le Earth which they call Commota [loose or^aken] which is mixt with Fragments of°od, Iron, Rubbilh, Coyns, ancient Urns,ll d other things; which when it is thrown% they come to another sort of Earth that

hath