notice, that the history of _Adam_, of _Eve_, of the tree, and of the serpent, was extant among the idolatrous _Indians_ in his time: and there are many witnesses in our age, who testify that the same is still to be found amongst the _heathen_ dwelling in _Peru_, and the _Philippine_ islands, people belonging to the same _India_; the name of _Adam_ amongst the _Brachmans_; and that it was reckoned six thousand years since the creation of the world, by those of _Siam_. _Berosus_ in his history of _Chaldea_, _Manethos_ in his of _Egypt_, _Hierom_ in his of _Phœnicia_, _Histæus_, _Hecatæus_, _Hillanicus_ in theirs of _Greece_, and _Hesiod_ among the Poets; all assert that the lives of those who descended from the first men, were almost a thousand years in length; which is the less incredible, because the historians of many nations (particularly _Pausanias_ and _Philostratus_ amongst the _Greeks_, and _Pliny_ amongst the _Romans_) relate, that men’s bodies, upon opening their sepulchres, were found to be much larger in old time. And _Catullus_, after many of the _Greeks_, relates, that divine visions were made to men before their great and manifold crimes did, as it were, hinder God, and those Spirits that attend him, from holding any correspondence with men. We almost every where, in the _Greek_ and _Latin_ historians, meet with the savage life of the Giants, mentioned by _Moses_. And it is very remarkable concerning the deluge, that the memory of almost all nations ends in the history of it, even those nations which were unknown till our forefathers discovered them: so that _Varro_ calls all _that_ the unknown time. And all those things which we read in the poets, wrapped up in fables (a Liberty they allow themselves) are delivered by the ancient writers according to truth and reality; that is, agreeable to _Moses_; as you may see in _Berosus’s_ History of _Chaldea_, _Abydenus’s_ of _Assyria_, who mentions the dove that was sent out of the ark; and in _Plutarch_ from the _Greeks_; and in _Lucian_, who says, that in _Hierapolis_ of _Syria_, there was remaining a most ancient history of the ark, and of the preserving a few not only of mankind, but also of other living creatures. The same history was extant also in _Molo_ and in _Nicolaus Damascenus_; which latter names the ark, which we also find in the history of _Deucalion_ in _Apollodorus_; and many _Spaniards_ affirm, that in several parts of _America_, as _Cuba_, _Mechoacana_, _Nicaraga_, is preserved the memory of the deluge, the saving alive of animals, especially the raven and dove; and the deluge itself in that part called _Golden Castile_. That remark of _Pliny’s_, that _Joppa_ was built before the Flood, discovers what part of the earth men inhabited before the Flood. The place where the ark rested after the deluge on the _Gordyæan_ mountains, is evident from the constant tradition of the