1. Concerning the beginning of the World, 283 2. Of mens Enquiries in what season or Point of the Zodiack it began, 300 3. Of the Divisions of the seasons and four Quarters of the year, 302 4. Of some computation of days and deductions of one part of the year unto another, 309 5. A Digression of the wisdom of God in the site and motion of the Sun, 313 6. Concerning the vulgar opinion, that the Earth was slenderly peopled before the Flood, 319 7. Of East and West, 338 8. Of the River Nilus, 349 9. Of the Red Sea, 363 10. Of the Blackness of Negroes, 367 11. Of the same, 380 12. A Digression concerning Blackness, 387 13. Of Gypsies, 395 14. Of some others, 397 PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA THE THIRD BOOK--_continued_ CHAPTER XI Of Griffins. That there are Griffins in Nature, that is a mixt and dubious Animal, in the fore-part resembling an Eagle, and behind, the shape of a Lion, with erected ears, four feet and a long tail, many affirm, and most, I perceive, deny not. The same is averred by _Ælian_, _Solinus_, _Mela_, and _Herodotus_, countenanced by the Name sometimes found in Scripture, and was an Hieroglyphick of the Egyptians.