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4. Ubi eras quando ponebam fundamenta Ter- 

 r« ? Indica Mihi, fi habes intelligentiam. 



5. Quis pofuit menfuras ejus, û nôfti ? Vel quis 

 tetendit fuper earn, lineam ? 



6. Super quo bafes illius folidatœ funt ? Aut 

 quis demifit lapidem angularem ejus, 



7. Cum manè laudarent fimul Aftra matutina, 

 & jubilarent omnes Filii Dei ? 



8. Quis conclufit oftiis * Mare, quando erum- 

 pebat quafi ex utero procedens : 



* Though the fenfe which I affix to this pafTage, does not 

 greatly differ from that of M. de Sad, in his excellent tranfla- 

 tion of the Bible, there are, at the fame time, feveral expref- 

 fions, to which I affign a meaning rather oppofite to that of 

 this learned Gentleman. 



I ft. Ojîium, properly fpeaking, fignifies an opening, a dif- 

 gorging, a fluice, a flood-gate, a mouth ; and not a barrier, 

 according to Saab Tranflation. Obferve how admirably the 

 fenfe of this verfe, and of that which follows, is adapted to the 

 ftate of conftraint and inaélivity to which the Sea is reftrided 

 at the Poles, furrounded with clouds and darknefs, like a child 

 in fwaddling clothes in his cradle. They are, likewife, expref- 

 five of the thick fogs which furround the bafis of the polar ices, 

 as is well known to all the mariners of the North. 



adly. The preceding epithets of the foundations of the Earth ; 

 of the fajlening of the foundations ; of Jlr etching the line upon it ; 

 of the Sea's breaking firth, as if iffuing from the womb, deter- 

 mine particularly the Poles of the World, from whence the Seas 

 flow over the reft of the Globe. The epithet of corner fione^ 

 feems, likewife, to denote more particularly the North Pole, 

 which, by it's magnetic attradlion, diftinguifhes itfelf from 

 every other point of the Earth. 



9. Cum 



