Fifteen cubits] There was no refuge then for Giants, or the greatest land-creatures upon the highest hils, or any resting place for Enoch upon the Earth (as the Papists saign his preservation in some high place of the earthly Paradise.) Some will have it that some hils are in their tops above the middle region of the Aire, and so above clouds and raine, and windes; in so much that Solinus writeth that on Olympus, letters written in ashes will remaine a whole yeare, as legible at the yeares end as when they were made; which appeareth to be fabulous both by reason and experience; by reason, because that vapours which cause both raine and winde doe ascend fifty two, or at least fourty five miles in height, as Clavius sheweth in his Booke de Crepusculis: but the hill Olympus ascendeth not in a perpendicular line above a mile and a quarter, as the dimension was taken by Anaxagoras, and reported by Plutarch in the life of Paulus Aemilius; so that if the mountaines Athos, Atlas, Caucasus, Casius, Pelion, Ossa, Tencriffa, and divers others had beene set one upon another, and all upon Olympus, it would not have afforded a safe repose for Enoch, or any else, the flood swelling up fifteene cubits above the highest mountaines: and for experience, Francisc. Philelphus a learned Knight of Italy ascended the hill Olympus to try the truth of that of Solinus, and found the relation to be false, as Ludov. Vives hath reported on August. de 104: Dei. 50: 15. cap. the last: yet (how high soever the flood swelled) the Papists will have it that Enoch was secured from drowning in some part of Paradise; and for that purpose the waters (say some of the learnedst of that side) stood above the hill, and about the place where Enoch was, as Exodus 14:22. mountaines] See Psalms 104:6.