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nion; for thefe Defcriptions had been entirely 

 ufelefs, and againft the rules of native fimplicity 

 (which the Holy Ghofl always obferves in fuch 

 accounts,) except thofe very identical Branches 

 had not then barely exifted, but been likev/ife 

 well known. Nay the Euphrates is fo called at 

 this day : And though the others may, long fince, 

 have changed their original Names, yet that is of 

 no validity againft my opinion. Pray, did not 

 Solomon build a City in the Wildernefs, calling it 

 ^admcr? Did not the Greeks afterwards call it 

 Palmyra ? Did not the Emperor Adrian , who was 

 defervedly called the Wall Flower, from the ma- 

 ny ftately Edifices which he erecfled, rebuild it 

 out of Ruins, naming it Adrianople? And has it 

 not now recovered its pri(line Title T^admor^ 

 which indeed it never totally loft among the 

 Syrians and Arabs ? 



Dear Sir, 



Though I raife this Objedlion, againft your 

 Patron, Dr. Woodward's Theory of the Earth; 

 yet, if you are able to folve it well, I am always 

 ready to own my miftake ; For no Author can 

 lay claim to Infallibility. And for fuch unchari- 

 table People as believe, when I mention things 

 they are entirely unacquainted with, that I muft 

 of courfe make too free with, what they (with a 

 fqecr) call, a Traveller's Priviledge ; I fmile at 



their 



