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Vll PAQB Chap. 2. Of men's enquiries in what season or point of the Zodiack it began, that, as they are generally made, they are in vain, and as particularly, uncertain … 201 to 203

Chap. 3. Of the divisions of the seasons and four quarters of the year, &c. . . . 204 to 209

Chap. 4. Of some computation of days and de- ductions of one part of the year unto another … 210 to 213

Chap. 5. A digression of the wisdom of God in the site and motion of the sun. . 213 to 219

Chap. 6. Concerning the vulgar opinion that the earth was slenderly peopled before the flood 219 to 235

Chap. 7. Of east and west .... 236 to 246

Chap. 8. Of the river Nilus .... 246 to 259

Chap. 9. Of the red sea ..... 259 to 262

Chap. 10. Of the blackness of Negroes. 263 to 275

Chap. 11. Of the same 275 to 280

Chap. 12. A digression concerning blackness 281 to 287

Chap. 13. Of gypsies 287 to 290

Chap. 14. Of some others 290 to 293

; the particular part concluded. Of popular and received tenets, chiefly his- torical, and some deduced from the Holy Scriptures.

Chap. 1 . That the forbidden fruit was an apple 295 to 299

Chap. 2. That a man hath one rib less than a woman 299 to 301

Chap. 3. Of Methuselah 301 to 304

Chap. 4. That there was no rainbow before the flood 304 to 308

Chap. 5. Of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 308 to 310

Chap. 6. That the tower of Babel was erected against a second deluge 310 to 312

Chap. 7. Of the mandrakes of Leah. . 312 to 317

Chap. 8. Of the three kings of Collein. 317 to 319

Chap. 9. Of the food of John Baptist, locust and wild honey ....... 319 to 321

Chap. 10. That John the Evangelist should not die 321 to 326