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Chap. 22. you may adde Quintus Fabius who slew one hundred and ten thousand Gauls. Caius Marius two hundred thousand Cimbrians. And in the latter ages Ætius who in that memorable Catalaunican Field slew one hundred sixty two thousand Hunnes. And lest you should think that in these Warrs, there were only Carcases of Men; there were those of Cities too. That Cato the Censour boasts that he took more Towns in Spain than he continued dayes there: Sempronius Gracchus (if we may believe Polybius) raised Three hundred in the same Spain, nor hath any age (as I think) any thing to add to these Examples; unless it be our own, though acted in another World. A few Spaniards about Eighty years ago; passing over into those vast and new found Lands: Good God! what funeralls, what slaughters did they make? I do not discourse the causes and justness of that Warr; but only the events. I see that huge space of Rh