their backs, and braid it with pearls and other jewels. The Calmaks of Little Bukhara wear their ear-rings very long, almoft touching their fhoulders, and drefs their hair with embroidered ribbons, and taffels of filk, wrought with gold and filver, which reach to their heels. Abuljügan serish or . feriyush and gazi, p. 456, 477. majer A veil. ferkharch A golden bodkin, with which the veil is faftened to the head-drefs. خلد fymt A long necklace, hanging down the bofom. als kheled Ear-rings; alfo bracelets. b kyret An ear-ring for the lob. fenf A ring for the top of the ear. fetkhet A plain ring without a beazel, either for keladet 8; zeh Ornaments for the murfed, is azmet, želi, rafat Cu the hands or feet. neck, &c. fhions, or quilting of the petticoats, to give a prominence. See alfo Abulgazi Khan, p. 610. women confider it as a beauty to black fpots. Abulgazi, p. 639. P. 352. D'Herbelot, p. 689. The Tungos Tartar mark their face with SECT. III. p. 359. Preliminary Difcourfe to Sale's Koran.-D'Herbelot, p. 514. с P. 358. D'Herbelot, p. 257. P. 359. Tatikhu'l'moflemin, (the Hiftoria Saracenica of Erpenius) p. 286. P. 360. hik See Tarikh Salaheddin, Ben Shounah, and various other Hiftorians on the life of Saladin, and the Cruzades: Vertot Hiftoire de l'Ordre de Malte, Vol. i. p. 207, &c.-D'Herbelot, p. 108, 194, 453, 505, 544, 634.—And the Hiftories of England, under the reign of Edward I. P. 364. b Epictet. Enchirid. Sect. 33, 43. P. 366. D'Herbelot, p. 535.-P. 368. Ib. p. 433. -P. 370. See Tarikhu'l'moflemin, p. 116. D'Herbelot, p. 3, 190, 388.-P. 375. • Ib. p. 442.-P. 377. f Ib. p. 170, 888.-P. 377. Ib. p. 432.-P. 379. Ib. p. 537. CHAP. II. SECT. I. P. 382. See Boileau, Sat. ix. 1. 171, 176. P. 385. For various examples of the manner in which our learned author treats preceding writers, see the Analyfis, paffim.-For one or two fpecimens turn to p. 433, 451, 465, of this Differtation, P. 386. See Apol. p. 68,78, 89, &c. The firft edition of the Differtation was published in November laft. When the Apology appeared I cannot tell. I was favoured with it about the end of March or beginning of April. Though the first edition of the Differtation was then fold off, as the Booksellers repeatedly informed me, I did not mean to have interrupted more neceffary bufinefs, by attending to the fecond, till towards winter. But, on receiving Mr. Bryant's favour, I refolved to take the earlieft opportunity, that the prefs would permit, to return my compliments for fuch polite notice. I have only further to obferve, that my Bookfeller (Mr. Murray) wrote to me of date the 8th of June, after the fheet, to which this note refers, was printed; that Mr. Bryant, on the 27th of April, had fent him a copy of his pamphlet, for my ufe: but, as he knew I had got it before, he had not thought of mentioning it fooner. Though late, and not fent in the propereft manner, yet I think it fair to mention this circumftance; to return the learned gentleman my thanks; and to beg his acceptance of my Differtation; which I fhall order to be forwarded the moment of publication. SECT. II. p. 389. The Samaritan Pentateuch, wẹ may obferve, differs both from the Hebrew and the Septuagint, in respect to the era of the Deluge, which it fixes in the year of the creation 1307. Some of the copies of the Septuagint make it to have happened in the year 2242; Jofephus in 2256; and Dr. Jackson chufes to follow him. How thefe difcrepancies arofe the learned have been much divided. Those who espouse the Hebrew chronology, among whom are Usher, Walton, Father Simon, and many others, fuppofe an alteration to have been made by the Septuagint tranflators (who first turned the Hebrew into Greek, about 280 years before the Chriftian era, in the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt) in order to reconcile it better with Greek chronology. But the advocates for this version, particularly Ifaac Voffius and Dr. Jackfon, infift, that the patriarchal genealogies were adulterated by the Jews in the second century of the Christian era; in order to give them above 1400 years more for the coming of their Meffiah.-Among many objections, however, which may be made to this theory, they do not feem to have explained in a fatisfactory manner, how a people, then fcattered over the whole earth, and who had never been unanimous in any thing, fhould have fo exactly agreed to alter every copy, in different places of the world; fo as to make them all, in this particular, perfectly alike.-The lives of the Antediluvian and Poftdiluvian patriarchs, it may be noticed, with one or two exceptions, are of the fame duration in all the difagreements arifing from the ages at which they are fuppofed to have begot their fons. Adam, for exam ple, is, by the Hebrew Bible, faid to have begot Seth at the age of 130; and to have lived afterwards 800 years; but by the Septuagint, he begat Seth when 230 years old, and lived after that time 700. The difference of time which grows from the whole is 1422 years: the period from the creation to the Chriftian era being, by the Hebrew, 4004 years: by the Septuagint 5426. Those who wish to see the conjectures of the learned on this fubject, may confult the Prolegomena to Brian Walton's Polyglot Bible: Ufher's Chronology: Father Simon's Critical History of the Old Teftament: Ifaac Voffius on the Septuagint: Capellus's Chronologia Sacra: Dr. Shuckford's Connection of Sacred and Profane Hiftory: Dr. Jackson's Chronological Antiquities and others. P. 393. Mythology, Vol. III. p. 355, 365. In my Bible, the Exodus is dated in 1491: but Walton, in his Prolegomena to the Polyglot, (p. 7.) makes it in 1496, or in the year of the world 2508. P. 394. 8 Our learned author treats poor Pliny rather hardly on another occafion, for having made one flight ftumble, in a matter of fmall comparative importance: and which may, after all, be an error in tranfcribing. He deems him wholly unworthy of credit, on the following ground: "As to the high antiquity affigned to letters by "Pliny; it is impoffible to give any credence to that au"thor, who from 720 years infers eternity, and speaks of "thofe terms as fynonymous." Myth. Vol. III. p. 125. Plinii Nat. Hift. 1. 7. p. 413. See alfo the Prefaces to Myth. Vol. I. and III. P. 398. Several writers of eminence fuppofe Ararat to have been a mountain in Scythia. See Martin Luther, Enarrat. in Genef. p. 105. Gorop. Becanus, Indo-Scy thica, p. 479. Wife on the firft inhabitants of Europe, p. 8. &c. - Sect. III. p. 399. & Myth. Vol. III. p. 24. P. 405. 1 Bochart. Geog. Sacr. p. 257. P. 406. m Bochart. p. 260. Hyde Relig. Vet. Perf. p. P. 410. Jackfon's Chron. Vol. I. p. 233.-Bedford's b Sect. IV. P. 414. Obfervations, on the mifquotations, C P. 415. Jackfon's Chron. Vol. III. p. 2. Dodwell on P. 416. d Wife on the Chronology of the Fabulous P. 419. Arrian. Exped. Alexand. lib. iii. c. 16. lib. P. Sect. V. P. 436. Myth. Vol. I. p. 215. - Apology, P. 446. Dr. Jackson, (Vol. I. p. 226.) confiders the |