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WAS a pretty many Years ago that I chanc’d to light upon Athanaius Kircher’s Book, call’d The Ectatick Journey, which treats the nature of the Stars, and of the Things that are to be found in the Superficies of the Planets: I wondered to ee nothing there of what I had often though not improbable, but quite other Things, nothing but a Heap of idle unreaonable Stuff: which I was the more confirm’d in, when, after the writing of the former part, I ran over the Book again. And I thought mine were very coniderable and weighty Matters if compar’d with Kircher’s. That other People may be atisfied in this, and ee how vainly thoe, who cat off the only Foundations of Probability in uch Matters, which we have all the way made ue of, pretend to philoo- phize