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afforded by it, that I first hinted at the antlropomorphist of 
the Hebrews. 
I shall conclude as briefly as possible. I have shown that if 
we receive the days of the Hebrew Genesis in an extended sense, 
a most important series of coincidences is developed between 
the epochs of nature and the events recorded by Moses. | have 
proved that the word is capable of the sense I affix to it without 
violating the common forms of speech. It is indeed allowed 
by FLE s that such a figurative sense is applied to it in a 
variety of languages. If we only grant Moses the same indul- 
gence which any common writer would have a right to expect 
at our hands, we are bound by every rule of candid criticism to 
adopt the méaning most favourable to his accuracy. The ques- 
tion might therefore be decided on highly probable grounds, if 
no further information could be obtained, and the Mosaic Cos- 
mogony might be considered as a philosophical and rational nar- 
rative of events, rather than a mythological rhapsody. But 
further, I have shown that two very ancient nations, viz. the 
Hindoos and the Etruscans, have preserved this same document of 
the Cosmogony with same variations, but with this remarkable 
difference, that where Moses mentions “ days,” they expressly 
define long periods of time or ages. This is precisely that very 
confirmation that was wanting, in order to convert a highly pro- 
bable conclusion into a legitimate inference. 
If your correspondent has any new observations to offer on 
this subject, I shall feel it incumbent on me to reply to them: 
but if he still confines himself to the “ cramle repetita,” 1 shall 
not exhaust the patience of your readers by agitating a frivolous 
dispute, but shall be contented with applying to myself the remark 
of a celebrated French writer, that ‘* a man may have the right 
side of an argument, though he should not have the last word in 
the controversy.” 
I remain, sir, 
Your very obedient servant, 
Bristol, June 14, 1816. J. C. PricHarD. 
XC. On Meteorology, Sc. in reference to Mr. ForstEr’s 
* Researches about Atmospheric Phenomena.” By the Rev. 
T. DrumMon»n, of Norwich. 
To Mr. Triloch. 
Sir, — Tae proposition to publish a Meteorological Journal 
induces me io offer a few remarks on the subject. 
As no precise outline of the plan has been brought forward, it 
may be inferred that the new work is intended to collect tésti- 
monies 
