“Let us conſider on the other part howe many peeces there are thereof throug out the worlde. Yf I would onely recite that whiche I coulde ſay there woulde be a regiſter ſufficient to fyl a whole boke. There is not ſo little a town where there is not ſome peece thereof, and that not onelye in cathedrall churches, but alſo in ſome pariſhes. Likewiſe ther is not ſo wicked an abbey where there is not of it to be ſhewed. And in ſome places ther are good great ſhydes:[51] as at the holye chappell of Paris, and at Poitiers & at Rome, where there is a great crucifix made thereof as men ſaye. To be ſhort, yf a man woulde gather together all that hath bene founde of this croſſe, there would be inough to fraighte a great ſhip. The Goſpell teſtifieth that the croſſe myght be caried of one man. What audacitie then was this to fyll the earth with pieces of wod in ſuche quantitie, that thre hundred men can not cary them,” &c. Calvin was full of zeal, and could not ſtoop to particulariſe. Witneſs his aſſertion that the Croſs would freight a ſhip, and yet that three hundred men could carry it. M. Rohault de Fleury has gone very minutely into this matter. Knowing, from microſcopical examination, that ſeveral of the relics of the Croſs were of pine, he accepts this wood as his baſis, and, from its probable ſize, he deduces a weight of 100 kilogrammes, equal to about 240 Engliſh lbs.; and, taking the average denſity of pine, he eſtimates that this would give 178 millions of cubic millimetres. He then deſcribes all the known pieces in Europe, Jeruſalem, and Mount Athos, with their meaſurements, and he puts the outcome at 3,941,975 cubic millimetres; thus, according to his ſhewing, there is but a very ſmall portion of the Holy Croſs in exiſtence. I ſubjoin his liſt of the places in which pieces of the Croſs are known to exiſt, as it is moſt intereſting, ſhowing the comparative bulk of the pieces, in cubic millimetres:—