234 letter from Arcticus. Deg. 19. 
finding nothing on the subject, I suspect he ° is 
searching the Revelations for one of his many horned 
monsters, which may be more suitable than the pro- 
phecies and doctrines of the New Testament. This 
hint, however, Mr Editor, | only throw out in pafsing, 
without the least intention to take the businefs out 
of such able hands; for J confefs myself lefs ac- 
quainted with the animals of the Revelations, than 
any other branch of zoology. 
My real intention in sitting down, when those 
monsters came acrofs me, was not to meddle with 
‘sacred, but to correct an error in profane modern 
history, inadvertently fallen into by the learned and 
ingenious abbe Barthelemy, when he isupposes he 
had got pofsefsion of all the manuscripts left by the 
curious Scythian traveller, the young Anacharses. 
I flatter myself, on the contrary, to make it appear 
probable, that the hordes of Tartary still pofsefs a 
part of that treasure: nay, I doubt not but the 
learned will agree with me, that there is sufficient 
internal evidence of the following fragments being 
a part of the wise and curicus remarks, made by 
that extraordinary Scythian fnepherd, during his in- 
structive travels, although the name of the country 
where he collected them, cannot be ascertained in 
the mutilated state of the manuscript. 
Iam ignorant if the abbe’s manuscript was in 
Greek, or in the Tartar language,—mine Is in the 
last, and probably the original; for Anacharses — 
would certainly zote, like other travellers in his own 
tongue, although he might have understeod perfect- 
ly the Greek, One thing J already persume in the 
