66 Notices respecting New Books. 
“¢ First—That there is not to he found, in all the rival monti- 
ments of antiquity, any authority equiv alent to, or that can in 
the least degree invalidate, the memorial of Moses: ’ 
*¢ Secondly—That his writings are of so pre-eminent and ex- 
traordinary a quality, that the greatest efforts of human subtlety 
and art seem to have been often ineiiectually exerted to counter- 
feit and nullify them. 
“ Thirdly—That the niost profound sages—the most eon- 
ceited theorists—the mest celebrated historians+—-the most ro- 
mantic poets and discursive geniuses of every pagan age and 
country seem to have resorted to his pages for information, and 
to have borrowed thence their only true notions regarding the 
primitive affairs of the earth; and that what they have feigned 
to deny as infidels, theorists, and enthusiasts, they have involun- 
tarily admired and espoused as historians, critics, and philoso- 
phers. 
*¢ Fourthly—That the Pentateuch seems ever to have been 
the only source of faithful intelligence respecting the formation 
of the earth, and the rise of human society; and which its most 
illiberal and malevolent adversaries directly or indirectly authen- 
ticate. 
** And lastly—That being, as it appears to be, unanimously 
attested by the whole world as the paramount evidence of the 
renovation of mankind after the flood, and of the first dispersion 
into colonies, it establishes for us those facts which no other volume 
in the world contains, and from which the history of the present 
population and political cantonments of the earth must neces- 
sarily be derived.” 
This leads the author to another inquiry. The testimony of 
Moses being found more consistent and satisfactory than any 
documents that have been compared with it; how come the 
moderns so far to disregard his anthority 2s to place Ararat, 
where the ark rested, in Armenia, almost due north of Shinay ? 
Moses . says expressly, that the builders of Babel ‘‘ journeyed 
from the east.’ Where then should the Ararat of Moses be 
sought for? To this inquiry the author devotes the whole of 
his second chapter, which we shall quote enitire. 
“* Inquiry concerning the Place of the Mountains of Ararat. 
‘« ‘And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth 
day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.’ Gen. viii. 4. 
** ¢ And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that 
they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.” 
“ But before we proceed to the peak of Ararat, or the sum- 
mit of Babel, to mark therefrom the overspreading of the earth 
by the posterity of Noah, we must endeavour to decide the geo- 
graphical 
