7. It crosseth the Proverb, and _Rome_ might well be built in a day; if that were true which is traditionally related by _Strabo_; that the great Cities _Anchiale_ and _Tarsus_, were built by _Sardanapalus_ both in one day, according to the inscription of his monument, _Sardanapalus Anacyndaraxis filius, Anchialem et Tarsum unâ die edificavi, Tu autem hospes Ede, Lude, Bibe_, etc. Which if strictly taken, that is, for the finishing thereof, and not only for the beginning; for an artificial or natural day, and not one of _Daniels_ weeks, that is, seven whole years; surely their hands were very heavy that wasted thirteen years in the private house of _Solomon_: It may be wondred how forty years were spent in the erection of the Temple of _Jerusalem_, and no less than an hundred in that famous one of _Ephesus_. Certainly it was the greatest Architecture of one day, since that great one of six; an Art quite lost with our Mechanicks, a work not to be made out, but like the wals of _Thebes_, and such an Artificer as _Amphion_. [Sidenote: _The Syracusia or King_ Hiero's _Galleon, of what Bulk_.] 8. It had been a sight only second unto the Ark to have beheld the great _Syracusia_, or mighty ship of _Hiero_, described in _Athenæus_; and some have thought it a very large one, wherein were to be found ten stables for horses, eight Towers, besides Fish-ponds, Gardens, Tricliniums, and many fair rooms paved with Agath, and precious Stones. But nothing was impossible unto _Archimedes_, the learned Contriver thereof; nor shall we question his removing the earth, when he finds an immoveable base to place his Engine upon it. 9. That the _Pamphilian_ Sea gave way unto _Alexander_ in his intended March toward _Persia_, many have been apt to credit, and _Josephus_ is willing to believe, to countenance the passage of the _Israelites_ through the Red Sea. But _Strabo_ who writ before him delivereth another account; that the Mountain _Climax_ adjoyning to the _Pamphilian_ Sea, leaves a narrow passage between the Sea and it, which passage at an ebb and quiet Sea all men take; but _Alexander_ coming in the Winter, and eagerly pursuing his affairs, would not wait for the reflux or return of the Sea; and so was fain to pass with his Army in the water, and march up to the navel in it. [Sidenote: _A List of some historical Errata's in this and the following Sections._]