2. That Children committed unto the school of Nature, without institution would naturally speak the primitive language of the world, was the opinion of ancient heathens, and continued since by Christians: who will have it our _Hebrew_ tongue, as being the language of _Adam_. That this were true, were much to be desired, not only for the easie attainment of that useful tongue, but to determine the true and primitive Hebrew. For whether the present Hebrew, be the unconfounded language of _Babel_, and that which remaining in _Heber_ was continued by _Abraham_ and his posterity, or rather the language of _Phœnicia_ and _Canaan_, wherein he lived, some learned men I perceive do yet remain unsatisfied. Although I confess probability stands fairest for the former: nor are they without all reason, who think that at the confusion of tongues, there was no constitution of a new speech in every family: but a variation and permutation of the old; out of one common language raising several Dialects: the primitive tongue remaining still intire. Which they who retained, might make a shift to understand most of the rest. [SN: _How_ Abraham _might understand the language of several Nations._] By vertue whereof in those primitive times and greener confusions, _Abraham_ of the family of _Heber_ was able to converse with the _Chaldeans_, to understand _Mesopotamians_, _Cananites_, _Philistins_, and _Egyptians_: whose several Dialects he could reduce unto the Original and primitive tongue, and so be able to understand them. 3. Though useless unto us, and rather of molestation, we commonly refrain from killing Swallows, and esteem it unlucky to destroy them: whether herein there be not a _Pagan_ relique, we have some reason to doubt. For we read in _Ælian_, that these birds were sacred unto the _Penates_ or houshold gods of the ancients, and therefore were preserved. The same they also honoured as the nuncio's of the spring; and we find in _Athenæus_[SN: _The same is extant in the_ 8th _of_ Athenæus.] that the _Rhodians_ had a solemn song to welcome in the Swallow. [Sidenote: _Why candles may burn blew, before the apparition of a spirit._] 4. That Candles and Lights burn dim and blew at apparition of spirits, may be true, if the ambient ayr be full of sulphurious spirits, as it happeneth oft-times in mines; where damps and acide exhalations are able to extinguish them. And may be also verified, when spirits do make themselves visible by bodies of such effluviums. But of lower consideration is the common foretelling of strangers, from the fungous parcels about the weeks of Candles: which only signifieth a moist and pluvious ayr about them, hindering the avolation of the light and favillous particles: whereupon they are forced to settle upon the Snast.