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 of peftilential Difeajes. i 3 BUT however Authors differ upon this Head, feveral very odd Relations are to be met with in Hittory of malignant and dead- ly Sicknefles from thefe Caufes. That Story is very ftrange which is related by Ammianus Marcclllmis, (a)?.vA taken Notice of by Cardan and Rlolanus, that a moft grievous Peflilence broke out in Seleucia, which, from thence to Tarthia, Greece, and Italy, fpread it felf thro 5 a great part of the World, from the Opening an ancient Vault in the Temple of Afollo and that it raged with fo much Fury, as to fweep away a third part of the Inhabitants of thole Countries it vifited. IT is needlefs to trouble the Reader with .many Relations of the fudden and ftrange Effects of fome Steams arifing from Mines and Pits, which are generally termed by our Colliers Damps, becaufe almoft. every Body has already been acquainted with fuch Accounts* D R. Plot (U) tells us, That about Twenty Years iince, two Perfons were employed to dig a Well in the Parifh of North-Leigh in Oxford- la) Hi ft. 73. (b) Nat. Hift. of Oxford/hire^ Chap. 3. Par. 31.