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of a new World.
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grounds and plaine testimonies I have brought for the confirmation of this Proposition: many other things in this behalfe might be spoken, which for brevity sake I now omit, and passe unto the next.


Proposition 13.

That 'tis probable there may be inhabitants in this other World, but of what kinde they are is uncertaine.

I Have already handled the Seasons and Meteors belonging to this new World: 'tis requisite that in the next place I should come unto the third thing which I promised, and to say somewhat of the inhabitants, concerning whom there might be many difficult questions raised, as whether that place be more inconvenient for habita-

tion