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cafion of it here, that the old Scythians, who all sprung from Magog, the brother, and Togarmah, the youngest son, of Gomer, who occupied all East and West Tartary, came down into Perfia and India, being contiguous to them, and mingled with the Elamites, or iffue of Shem, as it is obferved, with fome certainty, before. And it appears, by this, that their tribes were very confiderable; and that they remained among them, becoming one people, and propagating their language in these countries: for there cannot be a more striking argument for this opinion, than their retaining, to this day, the numeral names of the old Scythians, in both these regions: and it cannot be denied, that these are the most interesting part of a language; because they are abfolutely neceflary in every station and degree in life; and though the language itself may be subject, in time, to very great deviations and changes, yet numbers being in daily use with all ranks of people, and upon every occasion, their names are the most likely part of every language to continue, at least, lefs changed than

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BUT, to make this argument appear in its proper light, let us compare the Magogian names, with thofe of the Perfians and Bengalians, and their affinity and agreement will be astonishing, and a very strong auxiliary to our former fentiments, upon the originality of the Gomerian, or Magogian tongue, and the great lift of words, common to the Perfian, Bengalian and German dialects, at this time.

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In this table, the deviation from the original, in the names of Bengal and Perfia, is fo trifling, as not to admit the leaft doubt of their fource; and, indeed, they differ much less than several of the neighbouring countries of Europe do from one another, in this matter; it is very amazing that they were not more eftranged than they are, confidering the distance of time, and remotenefs of fitua

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tion, as well as the numberlefs mixtures of modern nations that have over-run these kingdoms, from time to time, fince the beginning, which would naturally produce all the causes for the changes in languages, accounted for before; and yet their parentage is manifeft, even now; and a difcovery arises from this, which corroborates thofe great truths related in Holy Writ, concerning the first migrations, after the flood of Noah, as delivered by Mofes and the prophets.

In the firft number, the ake and yeck are as eafy tranfitions from aon, as the Greek is, or Latin unus. The num

ber two is expreffed the very fame way with the original, in both Perfia and Bengal. And, as to the three, in the Magogian tri, the r is funk in both the Perfian and Bengalian tongues, and the initial t, changed to an, in the Perfian; otherwise they would be the fame. The four is the fame in all, with a small allowance for the change, merely from pronunciation: the ch, or c dotted, in the Magogian, is always pronounced like the Greek x, or Englib k; whereas, the Perfians and Indians pronounce them as we do in chain, charity, or the like. The five, being the fame in both, and called paunch, seems to be under the fame mutilation with the Welsh pymp, and the Greek pente; 'both which are accounted for already. The fix, or Magogian fhe, has an easy transition into the Bengalian choe and the Perfian fhefh. The number seven, called faat in Bengal, and haft in Perfia, are certainly the Magogian fheaghd. And the ocht, eight, is the fame, only with the change of the initial o into a, adding u, which makes aught in Bengal; and the hasht of Perfia differs only

in a vitiated pronunciation. As for the nine, it suffers but little alteration, the initial being preserved in both countries; for the nii is only changed to noe in one, and no in the other; and the Latins did the fame in their novem, as did the Greeks in their évvé. Number ten, deic, or deg, varies into does in Bengal, and da in Perfia; the initial is preserved, and the alteration but flight. Now, in the Magogian, when they reiterate the units with the tens, they fay yndeg for aondeg, eleven; and fo on of the reft, to twenty; but the Bengalians have droped the es in does, ten, and changed the do into ro, adding the units to it, in fucceffion, up to twenty; whereas the Perfians keep their da, ten, unchanged with the units, to express every number, from ten to twenty; and for this laft, they both say beest and beefe, which should be spelt with one i, instead of the ee, and by taking the original ƒ, instead of b, they would be fifte and fiffe, the very offspring of the Magogian fighid.

As to the other four, viz. the Turkish, Hebrew, Mallays and Chinese, there is not much to be observed concerning them, as there is no manner of agreement with the Magogian, except that the Hebrews express the numbers fix and seven, by the names fifa and fibha, which feem to have fome affinity to the original of the European names; and in the Mallays, for two and three, they fay duo and tigo, which are also probably related to the Magogian; in every other respect, the names of all the four are as different as can be imagined.

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