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would have been very eafily underftood, Can the negro 

 change his /kin, or the leopard his fpots ? 



Jeremiah * fpeaks of the chiefs - of the mingled people 

 that dwell in the deferts. And Ezekielf alfo mentions them 

 independent of all the others, whether Shepherds, or Cu- 

 fhites, or Libyans their neighbours, by the name of the 

 Mingled People. Ifaiah X calls them " a nation Scattered 

 " and peeled; apeople terrible from their beginninghitherto; 

 " a nation meted out and trodden down, whofe land the ri- 

 " vers have fpoiled :" which is a fufficicnt description of 

 them, as having been expelled their own country, and fet- 

 tled in one that had fuffered greatly by a deluge a fhort 

 time before. 



t Jerem. chap. xxv. ver. 24^ f Ezek. chap. xsx. ver. 5. J . Ifa. chap, sviii. ver. 2., 



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