text: " From so extravagant a commencement nothing but the most fantastical results could be expected and the reader will not be surprised to find Goropius making Adam and Eve a Dutchman and a Dutchwoman as one of the very first corollaries from his fundamental proposition; the Patriarchs follow; then the Gentile gods goddesses and heroes; the Titans the Cyclops the pigmies griffins and "Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire "-- nations tribes territories seas rivers lakes mountains valleys cities and villages--all are drawn into this vast vortex of nonsense set agoing originally by the single syllable _bec_ which after all if this story of the priests of Vulcan have any foundation in fact was most probably nothing more than an imitation of the peculiar cry of the goats by which the infants had been suckled