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door was after ſo many years wonderfully diſcovered, alſo there ſhall be opened a door to Europe (when the wall is removed) which already doth begin to appear, and with great deſire is expected of many.

In the morning following we opened the door, and there appeared to our ſight a Vault of ſeven ſides and corners, every ſide five foot broad, and the height of eight foot; Although the Sun never ſhined in this Vault, nevertheleſs it was enlightned with another ſun, which had learned this from the Sun, and was ſcituated in the upper part in the Center of the ſieling; in the midſt, in ſtead of a Tomb-ſtone, was a round Altar covered over with a plate of braſs, and thereon this engraven:

A. C. R. C. Hoc univerſi compendium unius mihi ſepulchrum feci.

Round about the firſt Circle or Brim ſtood,

Jeſus mihi omnia.

In the middle were four figures, incloſed in circles, whoſe circumſcription was,

1. Ne-