{1} 20. {2} 400. {3} 8000. {4} 160,000. Century {5} 3,200,000. {6} 46,000,000. {7} 1,280,000,000. {-----------------} Product { 1,347,368,420.} Now if this account of the learned _Petavius_ will be allowed, it will make an unexpected encrease, and a larger number than may be found in _Asia_, _Africa_ and _Europe_; especially if in _Constantinople_, the greatest City thereof, there be no more of Europe than _Botero_ accounteth, seven hundred thousand souls. Which duly considered, we shall rather admire how the earth contained its inhabitants, then doubt its inhabitation; and might conceive the deluge not simply penall, but in some way also necessary, as many have conceived of translations, if _Adam_ had not sinned, and the race of man had remained upon earth immortal. Now whereas some to make good their longevity, have imagined that the years of their compute were Lunary; unto these we must reply: That if by a Lunary year they understand twelve revolutions of the Moon, that is 354 days, eleven fewer then in the Solary year; there will be no great difference; at least not sufficient to convince or extenuate the question. But if by a Lunary year they mean one revolution of the Moon, that is, a moneth, they first introduce a year never used by the Hebrews in their Civil accompts; and what is delivered before of the Chaldean years (as _Xenophon_ gives a caution) was only received in the Chronology of their Arts. Secondly, they contradict the Scripture, which makes a plain enumeration of many moneths in the account of the Deluge; for so is it expressed in the Text. In the tenth moneth, in the first day of the moneth were the tops of the mountains seen: Concordant whereunto is the relation of humane Authors, _Inundationes plures fuere, prima novimestris inundatio terrarum sub prisco Ogyge. [SN: Xenophon de Æquivocis.] Meminisse hoc loco par est post primum diluvium Ogygi temporibus notatum, cum novem et amplius mensibus diem continua nox inumbrasset, Delon ante omnes terras radiis solis illuminatum sortitumque ex eo nomen._ [SN: Solinus.] And lastly, they fall upon an absurdity, for they make _Enoch_ to beget children about six years of age. For whereas it is said he begat _Methuselah_ at 65, if we shall account every moneth a year, he was at that time some six years and an half, for so many moneths are contained in that space of time.