Now our first ground to induce the numerosity of people before the flood, is the long duration of their lives, beyond 7, 8, and 9, hundred years. Which how it conduceth unto populosity we shall make but little doubt, if we consider there are two main causes of numerosity in any kind or species, that is, a frequent and multiparous way of breeding, whereby they fill the world with others, though they exist not long themselves; or a long duration and subsistence, whereby they do not only replenish the world with a new annumeration of others, but also maintain the former account in themselves. From the first cause we may observe examples in creatures oviparous, as Birds and Fishes; in vermiparous, as Flies, Locusts, and Gnats; in animals also viviparous, as Swine and Conies. Of the first there is a great example in the herd of Swine in _Galilee_; although an unclean beast, and forbidden unto the _Jews_. Of the other a remarkable one in _Athenus_, in the Isle _Astipalea_, one of the Cyclades now called _Stampalia_, wherein from two that were imported, the number so increased, that the Inhabitants were constrained to have recourse unto the Oracle _Delphos_, for an invention how to destroy them. Others there are which make good the paucity of their breed with the length and duration of their daies, whereof there want not examples in animals uniparous: [SN: _A Million of Beeves yearly killed in England._] First, in bisulcous or cloven-hooft, as Camels, and Beeves, whereof there is above a million annually slain in _England_. It is also said of _Job_, that he had a thousand yoak of Oxen, and six thousand Camels; and of the children of _Israel_ passing into the land of _Canaan_, that they took from the _Midianites_ threescore and ten thousand Beeves; and of the Army of _Semiramis_, that there were therein one hundred thousand Camels. For Solipeds or firm-hoofed animals, as Horses, Asses, Mules, etc., they are also in mighty numbers, so it is delivered that _Job_ had a thousand she Asses: that the _Midianites_ lost sixty one thousand Asses. For Horses it is affirmed by _Diodorus_, that _Ninus_ brought against the _Bactrians_ two hundred eighty thousand Horses; after him _Semiramis_ five hundred thousand Horses, and Chariots one hundred thousand. Even in creatures steril and such as do not generate, the length of life conduceth much unto the multiplicity of the species; for the number of Mules which live far longer then their Dams or Sires, in Countries where they are bred, is very remarkable, and far more common then Horses.