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Amorites until liis time : for the beginning of Joshua is placed 

 in 3263, and that of Jeptha, 3526, affording an interval of 

 263 years, nearly 40 less than the period assigned. 



jtli. He does not adhere to his own proper principle of 

 estimating the cardinal numbers, as if they were ordinal, but 

 ari)itrarily rejects and resumes it, as it suits his convenience, 

 or his theory. Cumque numerorum in temporum notatione 

 ea sit Mtio ut interduni quando, res aliquis contigerit indicat, 

 interdum quam diu duraverit ; in annis oppressorum posteri- 

 orem explieationem in annis quietis terrae, priorem hie acci- 

 piendam censemus. 



The objections to the system of JNIarshaiu are, in part, the 

 «ame as those 1 have urged against that of the learned 

 Usher ; yet Marsham has avoided some of his errors, as we 

 may observe in the period he assigns to Joshua, Gideon, and 

 in some other points. But, as he found that this would 

 jnaterially interfere with his calculus, and his object, which 

 was to compute according to the text 1 Kings, 6-1. he was 

 compelled to invent a new expedient to abridge the remain- 

 ing years of the Judges, in order to include only the precise 

 interval of 480 years. He admits, with the sacred historian, 

 that after Ehud had slain Eglon, king of Moab, the land had 

 rest 80 years, and so avoids the error, or at leait inconsistency, 

 of Usher. But he contends, that it was only in the Eastern 

 tribes ; for that, in the 20th year of that repose, Jabin, king 

 of Canaan, who reigned at Hazor, near (or in) the tribe of 



Asher, 



