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 , Beryll, and Pearls in the Shels of Fihes : and they are called airy, which wim upon the Water, and are pongious, as the Stones of a Sponge, the pumih Stone, and the Stone Sophus: and they are called fiery, out of which fire is extracted, or which are reolved into Fire, or which are produced of Fire : as Thunderbolts, Fire-tones, and the Stone Abetus. Alo amongt Metals, Lead, and Silver are earthy; Quickilver is waterih: Copper, and Tin are airy : and Gold, and Iron are fiery. In Plants alo, the roots reemble the Earth, by reaon of their thicknes: and the leaves, Water, becaue of their juice: Flowers, the Aire, becaue of their ubtility, and the Seeds the Fire, by reaon of their multiplying pirit. Beides, they are called ome hot, some cold, ome moit, ome dry, borrowing their names from the qualifies of the Elements. Amongt Animals alo, ome are in comparion of others earthy, and dwell in the bowels of the Earth, as Worms and Moles, and many other mall creeping Vermine : others are watery, as Fihes; others airy, which cannot live out of the Aire : others alo are fiery, living in the Fire, as Salamanders, and Crickets, uch as are of a fiery heat, as Pigeons, Etriches, Lions, and uch as the wie man cals beats breathing Fire. Beides, in Animals the Bones reemble the Earth, Fleh the Aire, the vital pirit the Fire, and the humors the Water. And thee humors alo partake of the Elements, for yellow choller is intead of Fire, blood intead of Aire, Flegme intead of Water, and black choller, or melancholy intead of Earth. And latly, in the Soul it elf, according to Autin, the undertanding reembles Fire, reaon the Aire, imagination the Water, and the enes the Earth. And thee enes alo are divided amongt themelves by reaon of the Elements, for the ight is fiery, neither can it perceive without Fire, and Light : the hearing is airy, for a ound is made by the triking of the Aire; The mell, and tat reemble the Water, without the moiture of which there is neither mell, nor tat; and latly the feeling is wholly earthy, and taketh gros bodies for its object. The actions alo, and the operations of man are governed by the Elements. The Earth ignifies a low, and firm motion;