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I a fortunate Spot of Ground, which they fancy to refemble the Head, 
il, or Heart of the Dragon ; which done, they joyfully conclude they have
nd a Place in which the Perfon Interr'd fhal be happy, and his PofQerity
cefsful : which Opinion I believe to havebeen inculcated by fome grave 
lo-opher, to advance a filial Piety to the deceafed Parntsand more fpecial
e of the honor of Funerals. 
Now the Mountains of Qina are for the moll part encompafs'd with great 
lages, pleafant for moft beautiful Sepulchral Monuments, Chafes, and 
oves, and a waving Sea of Rice makes them like a Plain, which when 
oves and Woods do fmile with their Summer Attire, renders a moil plea- 
t Profpe&, the Chappels plac'd on them excelling for Magnitude and 
endor : there are alfo the Monafleries of the Priefis ; but yet in the thick
i overgrown Woods liveth a barbarous Nation not yet fubje6led to the 
nefe, s; 
Many things areobferv'd in thefe Mountains, which (if true) may be de. 
redly accounted amongft the Miracles of Nature   Someby teafon ofthei 
mnnfe heighth have a perpetual Serenity on their Tops; others are cover'd
h a continual dark Mantle of ambient thick Mils: t1cre are foe which 
mph only with wholfom Plants, exiling all venomous Weeds. 
in the Mountain 9,eyu both fmall and great Stones are found, in a cubical
four- fquare Figure, which are alfo in one of the Mountains of Calabria,
of 
ich we have treated in our Book of the Subterranean World. 
The Mounta ;Paoki in the Province of Xnfi, hth the Figure of a Cock, 
o on the approach of a Storm fendeth forth fuch Murmurs and Rorings, 
nay be heard at a great difance; and Olats Ma1unm, in his Hifiory of the
rthern Reigons, faith, That fuch monfrous Sounds happen ira the Moun. 
isof the &tn ic& Sea. 
That is alfo worthy of admiration which the Liaefvia Oteofcopifts relate
cerning the Mountain, Cia That on the topof itthere is a Stone five Per-
2Shigh ; and another alfo in the Kingidom of Fokktn, which as often as a
Storm is near, tot.reth atid is moved hither and thither, as Cyprefs Tres
fhaken by the Winds. 
There is another Motntain cntinually cover"d-with Tiroft, the caufe
of 
whic hmay be conjetur-dto be the Nitrous Spirits which the Mountain, to.
gether with theVapors of the.Watry Recepeaules 6ein laid up, perfpireth.
There is a Mountain intheoProvinceof kiang i which hath two Tops, the 
uppermoft of which refembles a Dragon, feeming to floop fiercely at the 
lower Spire, which appeareth like a Rampant Tyger; from whofe various 
Afpets the Priefis make many Rules of Divination for their Difciples. 
Another Mountain byit's fe, fi tops configureth the feven Stais in the 
Conflellation of the Greater  ear..... 
But the Mountain fafhion'd in the fhape of an Idol, near the City of Tun-
chue in the Province of Fokien, exceedeth all admiration; concerning which
thus writeth Father Martinius in his Atla), Page 69. The firp M'ountain of
this 
Pro"ince (faith he) 15 warthy of admiration, beingfituate on the  Bans
o tbe Riwr Feu; 
for from tb Mountain tbe baw, aI may fay, not form'd a monfirou, but a mountainous
Idol, which they call Fe ; it fittetb itb croft Legs, or decaffated Peet,
foldin the hands 
in hii Bofom: Im may judge o the Ma gnitudthe Eyes, Ears, No/lrils, and Moutb
being 
perjficuous to the Beholders at leaft two Miles. This they fuppofe not to
have been 
cut out by the Labor of Art, (as ,Dnoflratus offer'd to Carve the Mountain
Athos