Of the firft migrations of Noah's offspring from Armenia; of the parts of the earth to which they passed from time to time; and a general view of the farther passage and changes of the defcendants of Japhet northward and weftward.

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HE talk I have undertaken I own to be of an arduous nature, and yet it would be an un

pardonable omiffion not to attempt throwing

fome light upon a fubject as yet in obscurity; and although it is a fubject of the most remote antiquity, I have great hopes of clearing up fome matters that may give fatisfaction to those who delight in the study of ancient history.

IN examining a great number of hiftorians who have mentioned the Celts, I cannot find that the most ancient of them have had much, if any, notion of what is written in the books of Mofes; and the more modern writers have chiefly limited themselves to later times, confining their accounts to the several migrations, revolutions, policy,

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