ſelf, and attempted not to lay before People, whom I found ſuch Enemies to good Senſe, any Conſiderations, how improbable, if not impoſſible, it was, that any body ſhould give Credit to what they ſaid.
I should, however, have doubtleſs heard many other Accounts of the like Nature, if, by my ſaying little in Anſwer to them, and a certain Air of Ridicule, which they obſerved in my Countenance, and which, in ſpite of my Endeavours to the contrary, I was not able to refrain, they had not perceived that it was vain to attempt bringing me over to their Side.
And now having given as full an Account, as I am able, of the Wonders they relate of the ſubterranean and ſubterraqueous World, let me proceed to what is to be found by thoſe who venture not ſuch rash Expedients in the ſearch of Curioſities. And firſt of their Mountains.
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