THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 471 



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CHAP. VI. 



%ueen of Saba viftsjerufalem — Abyfinian Tradition concerning Her— 

 Suppofed Founder of that Monarchy — Abyffinia embraces the Jeivif 

 Religion — Jeivif 3 Hierarchy fill retained by the Falafa — Some Con- 

 jectures concerning their Copy of the OldTefament. 



1 



IT is now that I am to fulfil my promife to the reader, of 

 giving him fome account of the vifit made by the Queen 

 of Sheba*, as we erroneoufly call her, and the confequences 

 of that viiit ; the foundation of an Ethiopian monarchy, and. 

 the continuation of the fceptre in the tribe of Judah, clown 

 to this day. If I am obliged to go back in point of time, it 

 is, that I may preferve both the account of the trade of the 

 Arabian Gulf, and of this Jewilh kingdom, diitinet and un- 

 broken. 



We are not to wonder, if the prodigious hurry and flow- 

 €f bufmefs, and the immenfely valuable tran factions they 

 had with each other, had greatly familiarifcd the Tyrians, 



and; 



*lt fhould progerly be Saba, Azab, orAzaba, all fignifying Seufb. 



