COROLLARIE VIII.

WE have also probable the cause of the inundations of Tyber, which befel at Rome, in the time of Alexander the Sixth, & of Clement the Seventh; which innundations came in a serene time, and without great thaws of the Snows; which therefore much puzzled the wits of those times. But we may with much pro∣bability affirm, That the River rose to such a height and excres∣cence, by the retardation of the Waters dependant on the boistrous and constant Winds, that blew in those times, as is no∣ted in the memorials.