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felf, and the place it holds in Jewifh antiquities, merits chat 

 it mould be treated in a place by itfelf, fo the connection 

 that it is luppcicd to have with the foundation of the mo- 

 narchy of Abyffmia, the country whofe hiilory I am going 

 to write, makes this particularly proper for the fake of con- 

 nection ; and I fhall, therefore, continue the hiilory of the 

 trade of the Arabian Gulf to a period in which I can re- 

 fume the narrative of this expedition without occafioning 

 •my interruption to either, 



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