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tion. For instead of putting them under, it fhould be, he fet them at or to Saws, &c. And, instead of making them pafs through, by an eafy Mistake of a (7) R for a (7) D, which are Letters fo very much alike, it should be, he made them ferve, that is, he made them work at the Brick-Kiln. That is, he made them his Carpenters and Smiths, and obliged them to burn Bricks for him. And this, I fuppofe to be Part of thofe great Preparations which he is faid to have made towards the Temple, which his Son Solomon built after his Death ".

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I think I have now gone through most of the Articles in your ingenious Preface, which feemed to afford Matter for Reflections. have only to defire that you will look upon what hath been here faid, not in the Spirit of Criticism, and finding Fault, but as proceeding from that Love of Truth which, you fay, "the Candid will ever be glad to support.”

And fo the Particle fignifies in a great Variety of Places. But I have confidered this Paffage particularly in

another Place.

1 Chron, xxii. 2, 3.

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It was to obviate the Conclufions that might be drawn by the unwary, or ill-defigning, from Affertions totally void of Truth, or at best precarious, that these Remarks were drawn up.

And I make no doubt but when you come to reconfider fome things, too haftily advanced, from a too great Reliance on the Authority of your Bramins, your own good Sense will direct you to reform what in Europe, the most enlightened Part of the World, cannot fail of being looked on as very exceptionable.

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haps, be made in particular Cafes, for Ignorance, blind Affection, Vanity and the like.

Pag. 9. lin. 1. long] The first Ships feem to have been of a round Form, as of greater Capacity, resembling fomewhat the Coracles on the River Severn, and those Veffels that Herodotus mentions pag. 79. Edit. Gronov. as ufed on the Euphrates. This kind of Veffels feems to have been called Cymbia, as we learn from Macrobius, Saturnal. Lib. 5. Cap. 21. And this gave Occafion to the Fiction which he mentions there," quod antiqua Hiftoria eft Herculem Poculo tanquam Navigio, ventis immenfa Maria tranfiffe." In the Hebrew Language the G Word

word '' Ani, or Oni, fignifies a Ship; and in the Arabic Ina fignifies Vas, Receptaculum. The Phenician feems to have had a great Affinity with both these Languages, and the Greeks were fond of catching at fuch Ambiguities, as was faid before.

Pag. 9. lin. 3. defign] A piratical voyage afterwards, conducted by Paris, gave Occafion to the Trojan War, as I fuppofe. But there muft have been fomething more at the Bottom than the carrying off the Wife of a petty Prince, and, as it appears, with her own Confent, that could engage fuch numerous Forces, on each Side, in the Quarrel. The Scholiaft on Thucydides, pag. 10. Edit. Waff by an eafy Computation makes the number of the Greeks to be 10,2000. And when the Trojan Army lay all night on the Field of Battle, Homer fays, Iliad e. Ver. 563, that there were 1000 Fires, and at each Fire fate 50 Perfons. So that their Forces amounted to 50,000. But the farther Profecution of this Subject would require a Dissertation by itself.

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