The history of the world, commonly called the Naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus (1634)
Pliny, the Elder, Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637, tr · London, A. Islip · leaf 379
wherein the mightandmajedic of Nature more appeareih_,thaninthe waters rfor this one Element fecmcih torule and commaund all the reft. Waters devoure and fwallow up the earth: waters quench andkill the flames of fire: they mount up aloft into the aire, and feeme to challenge a feignoric anddominion… … M of Plinies Naturall Hiftorie, 401 A ftoppcdjind choked. And what might the reafon els be of thunders and lightnings flafhing andbreaking forth in that violence, and caufing fuch troubles and broils, as if the world were at warwithin it lelfe? And can there bee any thing more woonderfull and…
Natural history
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