The Sacred and Profane, History of the World Connected, From the Creation of the World - To the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire at the Death of Declension of and to the Declension of the Kingdoms of the and Israel, Under the Reigns ... #227265

At the Flood, the Heavens underwent some change the motion of the Sun was altered, and a year, or annual revolution of it, became, as it now is, five days and almost six hours longer than it was before. That such a change had been madea, most of the phllosopllei's observed, and, without doubt, as soon as they did Observe it, they endeavoured to set right their chronology by it: for it is evident, that as soon as the solar year became thus augmented, the an cient measure of a year would not do, but mistakes must creep in, and grow more and more every year they continued to compute by it.