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  In Scythia horrid Boreas holds his rain, Beneath Boites, and the frozen Wain : The land to this oppos'd doth Auter teep With fruitfull howres, and clouds which ever weep.   

Ext after the four imple Elements follow the four kinds of perfect Bodies compounded of them, and they are Stones, Metals, Plants, and Animals : and although unto the generation of each of thee all the Elements meet together in the compoition, yet every one of them follows, and reembles one of the Elements, which is mot predominant. For all Stones are earthy, for they are naturally heavy, and decend, and o hardened with drynes, that they cannot be melted. But Metals are waterih, and may be melted, which Naturalits confes, and Chymits finde to be true, viz. that they are generated of a vicous Water, or waterih argent vive. Plants have uch an affinity with the Aire, that unles they be abroad in the open Aire, they do neither bud, nor increae. So alo all Animals

 Have in their Natures a mot fiery force, And alo pring from a Celetiall ource.

And Fire is o naturall to them, that that being extinguihed they preently dye. And again every one of thoe kinds is ditinguihed within it elf by reaon of degrees of the Elements. For amongt the Stones they epecially are called earthy that are dark, and more heavy; and thoe waterih, which are tranparent, and are compacted of water, as 