268 Phyfical and Miscellaneous 



Number) will tranfaol Affairs of the greateft Value, without 

 fpeaking to one another, or letting the Standers by into the 

 Secret. Yet ftill of a much more extraordinary Nature, pro- 

 vided we could be equally aifured of the Truth of It, is the 

 Knowledge, which the Thalehs ' of this Country are fuppofed 

 to have in Numbers. For they pretend to fuch a powerful 

 Infight into the Nature and Quality of them, that by diffe- 

 rently joyning and combining them, they can bring to Light 

 a Variety of Secrets, excite as well as break the Force of 

 Charms, and perform a thoufand Tricks of the like Nature. 

 The following Diagram^ called [»^5^^*^^ jy^ Haraz el Mab-ira¥\ 

 The BleJJed Amulet \ is one of thefe Numeral Combinations^ 

 which, when hung about the Neck, is faid to procure the Fa- 

 vour of Princes , to infpire Courage , intimidate an Enemy^ 

 prevent Diilempers or whatever elfe is hurtful and injurious 

 to the Perfon who bears It. 



1. e. 



\n our Cj/f hers. 



The Mufick It hath been already obferved, that thefe People play upon 

 ieverallnftruments of Muiick: but as they do not write down 

 their Compofitions, nor aim at any Contrail or Variety of 

 Parts, it may be difputed, whether even This Branch of the 

 Mathematicks is to be coniidered as a Science among them. 



o/<^e Arabs. Foi- the Mufick o£ thc Bedowee^s rarely confifts of more than 

 one Strain, fuitable to their homely Inilruments, and to their 



r^iArabcb- fimple Invention. The Arabehhah, as they call the Bladder 



''*'^' and String, is in the higheft Vogue and doubtlefs of great An- 



I Or Tliull/ys (V. Not. p. 80.) Studiofi fapientis, from oJlL. qusfivit. Vid. Gol. 



2 Thefe 

 Letters 



i-p '!^^ ■^\which MenaiTeh ben Ifrael hiferts before his Treatife (De Refur- 

 C -Q .r _p J redione Mortuorum) were frobably another of thefe Charms. 



tiquity 



