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A37317	Færoæ & Færoa reserata, that is, A description of the islands & inhabitants of Foeroe being seventeen islands subject to the King of Denmark, lying under 62 deg. 10 min. of North latitude : wherein several secrets of nature are brought to light, and some antiquities hitherto kept in darkness discovered / written in Danish by Lucas Jacobson Debes ... ; Englished by J.S. ... ; illustrated with maps.	Debes, Lucas Jacobsen, 1623-1675.; Sterpin, Jean.	1676 (1676)	Wing D511; ESTC R9923	139,909	451

the most part contemn the opinion there should be any We call such Apparitions Specters because they present themselves to the eyes of men appearing as if they were real bodies whereas they are spirits that take upon them an external figure and in respect to a right created body are to be considered but as shadows Wherefore Christ says to his Apostles that took him to be such a spirit Why are you so afraid and why come such thoughts into your hearts look upon my hands and feet it is my self feel and see for a spirit hath neither flesh nor bones as you see I have that is though a spirit appears with the outward figure of a body By which words Christ doth not refute the Apostles opinion of spirits as vain and erroneous but agrees with them that there are Phantasms that they are spirits and that the figure they take hath not the propriety of a natural body Secondly Christ grants that they had cause to have been afraid if he had been a Phantasm Whereby we are taught that our own nature proveth their existencie since we are afraid when they appear by reason of the innate emnity which is between men and such spirits Wherefore when Eliphas of Theman saw a spirit going before him and there stood an image before his eyes whereof he did not know the figure but heard a voice the hair of his body stood upon end In Latin they call them Spectra that is such spirits as are seen so that the invisible good Angels when they appear in visible forms for as much as they are seen may also be called Spectra but we according to the Holy Scriptures and the explication of all Learned men understanding only by Specters spirits who in several visible Figures and likenesses appear unto men either to hurt or frighten them of which sort was the figure that appeared to King Saul in the likeness of Samuel 1 Sam. 28. as also the Divels outward shape that spoke with Christ and tempted him in the wilderness Mat. 4. The Heathens in their writings call some of those Specters Eaunes Satyrs and Panes which we call in Danish Skow and Bierge-Trold that is Wood and Mountain spirits those of Feroe call them under-ground people hollow men and Foddenskemand The Holy Scripture calls them Gods of the Woods Esaiah 13 th and also field Gods Deut. 32. which really are none but unclean spirits I have read in the writings of a godly man who pretended that besides the good and bad Angels there were also external spirits of the world which were not eternal and took their natural origine of the worlds visible spirit and finished also naturally which if it were they should then be some other Creatures then the eternal spirits or the visible shap'd Creatures Though there be much whereof our eyes cannot see the essence our reason comprehending no further then what is discovered in the outward corporal nature which yet it harldly comprehends as the wise man complaineth nevertheless one ought not to affirm such things as have no ground in the word of God though it were so in nature and therefore we will only contemplate these Apparitions by the clear light of Gods word and thereby together with understanding Learned mens writings see what one may conclude and judge of them One would think it might be worth a particular Speculation that the Holy Scripture speaks of Phantasms together with Zijm Jim and Ochim Esa 13. 21. cap. 34. 14. Jer. 50. 39. for the Lord threatning Babylon with its last destruction saith by the Prophet Esaias Babylon shall be changed as Sodom and Gomorrha and no man shall inhabit there any more neither live there for ever but Zijm shall there pitch their Tents and their houses shall be full of Ochim Ostridges shall live there and wood divels leap thereabouts Owls shall sing in their Palaces and Dragons dwell in their pleasure-houses The Prophets calling them Zihim and Ohim is not expounded by Luther in his Bible by any other word but he writes in the Margin that he taketh them to be all sorts of wild Beasts understanding without doubt such wilde Beasts as the wise man describes in this manner Wis 11. ver 19 c. The Lord saith he sent over them because of their sins new shaped cruel unkown Beasts that either breathed out flame or blew out cruel smoke or darted sparks terribly from their eyes which not only could bruise them to pieces with terror but murther them with the terribleness of their sights The wise man reckoneth also up these unknown Beasts Chap. 17. ver 3. 9. among spirits wherewith the Egyptians were terrified Maldonatus in his Scholia upon Esaiah esteems this kind of cruel unknown wild Beasts to be a sort of Divels That excellent Philosopher and Divine Johannes Henricus Vrsinus in the sixth Book Chap. 27. of his Anal●ecta sacra writes that these names can signifie both cruel wild Beasts and men but more properly Devils for Zijm from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 driness are properly those that inhabit dry and desart places Jijm from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Island those that live in Islands Ochim from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a funeral Bird those that cry out with a terrible voice but in the Prophet he understands Divels to be so called first because seirim or Wooddivel is also mentioned there secondly because Saint John doth so expound it in the Book of the Revelations Chap. 18. ver 2. when he saith she is fallen she is fallen Babylon the great and is become the habitation of Divels and the domicil of all unclean spirits and the repair of all unclean birds Thirdly because it is plain both by holy and profane writings and experience teacheth actually that Divels have their habitations in desart places My poor conclusion is this that the examples and clear words of the Holy Scripture do agree both with other Histories as also with the above-mentioned of the apparition of spirits that they were not fancies but were real and indeed and those Images not being substantial bodies they must be spirits in external figure and appearing to hurt men that they are not good but bad spirits that is very Divels And such as are mentioned in the abovesaid true Histories whether they appeared in the Figure of man or of any Beast are doubtless that sort of Divels which the Holy Scripture particularly calls Field-gods in the fifth Book of Moses Chap. 32. ver 17. 2 Chron. Chap. 9. ver 15. For Divels can far easier turn themselves in several such forms than in that of Angels of light it being all one what name one gives such Apparitions if one but knows their Chief who as the deadly enemy of all mankind that walketh in every Element to hurt man Sinesius teaching that there are six sorts of spirits that are all bad appearing to men specially to hurt them namely those that are in the air in the fire in the water upon the earth under

being hollow veines in many places of the Earth and Rocks the water doth run through them and those Conduits being narrow the Sea lyeth heavy thereon and presseth them so that the lesser water must needs rise above and seek a way to get out where it can find it whence come Springs and Fountains Thus far Scaliger Out of this meaning of Scaliger the Ingenious Reader can easily perceive that there are many trooked Veines or Conduits under the Earth and Rocks but yet it doth not follow that they cause or help the ascent of the Water for it cannot ascend directly up as we see it doth not through a hollow Post By the help of nature and art Archimedes invented a screw to make Water ascend from the place where it lyeth still which Screw was a hollow Leaden Pipe that was twined about a round and long staffe in the manner of a Screw but it was to be turned about and so the water was screwed up such are not naturally found in the Earth and though there be no such crooked Conduits in the Earth the water can nevertheless ascend from the lowest part of the Earth to the highest top of the Mountains as shall be demonstrated hereafter Besides it is to be noted that the water of the Sea doth not throng or press up the water of the Fountains because it is more abundant or heavier then the water that is in the veines of the Earth for if one layeth a horn on the back so that both ends are equally high Horizontally and one filleth it full of water though there be then much more in the thicker end then in the smaller which it seems by reason of its gravity should endeavour to seek the bottome of the Horn and so drive out the lesser water it cannot nevertheless do so for the greater water cannot drive the lesser higher up then it self lyeth high whence it followeth that the water of the Sea is as high yea higher then the highest Mountain on whose top there springeth Fountain water which must be proved All Mathematicians do truly affirm that Earth and Water make a round Globe together as it may be perceived by the Eclipse of the Moon when the Earth lyeth between it and the Sun for what is then darkened is round because the interposed Earth is of a round Figure That Water is absolutely round as the Earth is proved by the custome of Seamen who when they will discover Land climb up to the Main mast whence they can discover it when no body else can see it in the Ship the cause whereof is the roundness of the Water for if it were flat they could as well see the Land below in the Ship as above on the Mast Finally the whole is like its parts and therefore if a drop let fall on a Table or on a Cloth formeth it self round the whole Mass or body thereof must have the same nature and propriety That Fundament being firm and without contradiction the wide Sea can soon mount in the roundness of its figure higher then any Mountain on Land is high And therefore naturally according to the aforesaid nature of Water can easily weigh up and press the lesser water through the Conduits of the Earth though they be not crooked and that as high as the Sea is in its highest Superficie which is demonstrated by the following Figure Let this round Figure be the whole Globe consisting of Water and Earth let D. E. and F. G. and H. I. be three parts of the Land and the space between water Let A. be here the highest Superficies or uppermost part of the water let K. L. be a Spring on the high Mountain D. K. L. now water presseth on its highest near A. down towards the Center C. through which it cannot come to the lowermost Superficie and therefore seeks a passage through the earth and amongst many let there be a veine near M. running up either straight or crooked from M. to I. K. as may be seen in the Figure which it can easily do till B. lying first Horizontally with A. but the Sea cannot drive up the least drop thereof to N because it is higher then A The Water therefore runneth thus from K. down the Mountain over the Plain near L. and thence into the Sea by O. which it will do as long as the World lasteth and since the perpendicular of the Mountain I. K. is a third part of the length of the earth semidiameter C I. which alter the supputation of Astronomers is 859 Leagues so the Mountain is high perpendicularly 286 Leagues no Mountain being so high no not Mount Olympus that is esteemed the highest in the World And this supposition sheweth the rising of the Sea in the motion of its waves expounded pag. 64. for if there be so great a difference of Floud in the space of ten Leagues what difference is there then in hundreds of Leagues This Demonstration is confirmed by a rare example of a water in Feroe for there is on Suderoe towards the South near a little Village called Famoien a little Lake pretty high on the Mountain that hath ordinary Ebb and Floud with the Sea but it hath doubtless larger Conduits then other veines of water through which it can easier rise and fall so that this example is a singular proof of the demoustration aforesaid for if that Lake had Ebd and Floud immediately of it self other fresh waters that lye still would also have the same nature but if this happens mediately by reason of the motion of the Sea it followeth that fresh water ascendeth from thence That there runneth salt water in the Conduits of the Earth and cometh out again fresh is by this reason since all Mettals and Miner●ls as Chymists prove clearly are produced of Salt and the Earth hath its fatness of the same they draw then the Salt from the Water for their maintenance and nourishment as the flesh draweth from the blood in the veines of a mans body that whereof the body hath its increase and fatness And wheresoever there are Mettals and Minerals in the Earth the Water Attracts their qualities and is tinged according to their nature whence doth proceed several healing waters that Earth draweth Salt to it self is proved by an Artificial Experiment for if one will bind a piece of linnen Cloth over the one end of a bottomless Cask and fill the Cask full of Earth pouring on the earth a quantity of Salt water and letting it sink through the Earth two or three times the Water at last will come out fresh the Earth having drawn to its self the Salt thereof If any would conclude fresh Springs to come of rain water because when it raineth there runneth out more water at the Spring then when it hath been a long time dry weather the Spring being then drained and producing no water It is answered thereunto that rain cannot be the cause of Spring water on Feroe the Land consisting in hard