And as they say the Poles of the World were in another situa∣tion at first, so at first they say, there was no variety of seasons in the Year, as in their Golden Age. Which is very coherent with all the rest, and still runs along with the Theory. And you may ob∣serve, that all these things we have instanc'd in hitherto, are but links of the same chain, in connexion and dependance upon one an∣other. When the Primaeval Earth was made out of the Chaos, its form and posture was such, as, of course, brought on all those Scenes which Antiquity hath kept the remembrance of: though now in another state of Nature they seem very strange; especially being disguis'd, as some of them are, by their odd manner of represen∣ting them. That the Poles of the World stood once in another posture; That the Year had no diversity of Seasons; That the Tor∣rid Zone was uninhabitable; That the two Hemispheres had no possibility of intercourse, and such like; These all hang upon the same string; or lean one upon another as Stones in the same Build∣ing; whereof we have, by this Theory, laid the very foundation bare, that you may see what they all stand upon, and in what order.There is still one remarkable Notion or Doctrine amongst the An∣cients which we have not spoken to; 'tis partly Symbolical, and the propriety of the Symbol, or of the Application of it, hath been little understood; 'Tis their doctrine of the Mundane Egg, or their comparing the World to an Egg, and especially in the Original composition of it. This seems to be a mean comparison, the World and an Egg, what proportion, or what resemblance betwixt these two things? And yet I do not know any Symbolical doctrine, or conclusion, that hath been so universally entertain'd by the Mystae, or Wise and Learned, of all Nations; as hath been noted before in the fifth Chapter of the First Book,Lib. 2. c. 10. and at large in the Latin Treatise. 'Tis certain, that by the World in this similitude, they do not mean the Great Universe, for that hath neither Figure, nor any determinate form of composition, and it would be a great va∣nity and rashness in any one to compare this to an Egg; The works of God are immense, as his rature is infinite, and we cannot make any image or resemblance of either of them; but this comparison is to be understood of the Sublunary World, or of the Earth; And for a general key to Antiquity upon this Argument, we may lay this down as a Maxim or Canon, That what the Ancients have said concerning the form and figure of the World, or concerning the Original of it from a Chaos, or about its periods and dissolution are never to be understood of the Great Universe, but of our Earth, or of this Sublunary and Terrstrial World. And this observation being made, do but reflect upon our Theory of the Earth, the manner of its composition at first, and the figure of it, being compleated, and you will need no other interpreter to understand this mystery. We have show'd there, that the figure of it,Book. 1. c. 5. when finisht, was Oval, and the inward form of it was a frame of four Regions encompassing one another, where that of Fire lay in the middle like the Yolk▪ and a shell of Earth inclos'd them all. This gives a solution so easie and natural, and shows such an aptness and elegancy in the representation, that one cannot doubt, 0