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Show 3 ---- --- ATHA 451VS KIRGHE about which they {pare no coft or pains, n t only obferving with no fmall Scrutiny the Summits, tops and (uperficies, bu allo make {ubtle infpe&ions into th ver bowels of the Mountains, to find a fortundt {pot of ground which the fancy relcmbles the Head, Tail,or Heart of th Dragon; which done,they joyfull conclude they have found a place in which t e perfon Interr'd fhall be happy, an bis Pofterity fuccefsful, which I believe to b inculcated by fome Grave Philofopher, to advance a filial Piety to t eir Deceafed Parents,and more {peci car of the honour of Funerals. Now th Mountains of Chins are for the mof encompafled with great V illa es, plealant for moft Beautifu fi"'[h . fot # O Wwoo Sepulchral Monu ments, Chafes, and Groves, and 2 waving Sea of Ric in which when Groves and Woods d by 40 {mile with their Summer attire, render a of pleafant Profpe&,the Chappels placed on t em excelling for magnitude and {plendour ; there are alfo the Monafteries of the P iefts, but yetin the thick and overgrown Woods livetha Barbarous Nation n t yet {ubjeted to the Chinefes Many things are obferved in thefe Mount may deferthe wonder. VEA!Y be accounted amon ft the Miracles of Natur ¢; fom reafon of their imiof properties menfe height have a perpetua fomeMounferenity on their tops, others are cove with tains continual dark Mantle of ambient th ck Mifts; there are fome which trium only with wholfome Plants,exiling all Ve omous Weeds, Inthe Mountain Queyn ‘both {mall and great ftones are f . T 4 b tc'[‘cr rm‘& with vinc und 1n a cubical or four(quare Figure which ar alfo in one of the Mountains of Calabr z, of which we have trcated in our oc of the Subterranean Wor d. The Mountain Paoki in the Provinc fs, hat + " the Figure ofa Cock, who oh the appr ach of a ftorm fendeth forth fuch murmur and roarings,that may be heard far diftan > and Olans Magnus in his Hiftory of th Northern Regions faith, that fuch monfi ous founds happen in the Mountains o the Botnick Sea ion which the Chix eftan Oreofcopifs r A moveabl so the Moun Cioy that on the top of it there is a ftone iv - the the Kingdom of F okien,which as often asa ftor i ~moved hither and thither, as Cyprefs Tree ken by the winds. Vide Autho Fart 4. Folio. 170 There is another Mountain continuall covered with Froft, the canfe of whic may be conjectured to be the Nitrous pirits, which the Mountain, together it the vapours of the watry receptacle Author Part, 4. Folio 171 therein laid up, perfpireth a ::,' fo Further Vid A Mountain in the Province K tang f hat which re{fembles a Dragon, feeming to ftoop tie cely atthe lower Spire, which appearet like a Rampant Tyger; from whofe varjous A ules o divination for their Difciples Another Mountain by its feven tops co figureth the feven Starsin the Conlftellation of the greater Bear But the Mountain fathioned in the fhape o hue in the Province of Fokien, exceedeth ll bave, as [ inay [ay, not formed 4 M nftrous, but a Mountainons Idol whic they call Fe 5 i fitteth with crof legs, or decaffated feety folding th bands in bi bofom. You may judge of the Magni The thus writProvincei this Moun ude, the Eyes,Ears,Noftrils,and Mo th, bein perlpicuous to the beholders at Jeaf two miles, {uppofed not to be cut out Dinoftratus offered to carve th Mountain Athos into an Alexander olding a Cir i one hand, and a River in the oth r5 but the meer work of Nature mu h aflifte by fancy dmiration 3 concerning whic cth Father Martinins in his Atlas, Foli 69. The firfk Mountain of thi worthy of admiration, being fituated onth banks of the River Feu;for fro tain the |