5 oo TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



I cannot but recollect, that when it was known in Eng- 

 land that I had prefented this book to the library of the King 

 of France, without flaying a few days, to give me time to reach 

 London, when our learned countrymen might have had an 

 opportunity of penning at leifure another copy of this book, 

 Doctor Woide fet out for Paris, with letters from the Secre- 

 tary of State to Lord Stormont, Ambaffador at that court, defi- 

 ring him to affift the doctor in procuring accefs to my pre- 

 fent, by permiffion from his Mod Chriftian Majefty. This 

 he accordingly obtained, and a tranflation of the work was 

 brought over ; but, I know not why, it has no where ap- 

 peared. I fancy Dr Woide was not much more pleafed with 

 the conduct of the giants than I was. 



I shall conclude with one particular, which is a curious 

 one : The Synaxar (what the Catholics call their Flos Sanc- 

 torum, or the lives and miracles of their faints), giving the 

 hiftory of the Abyffinian converfion to Chriftianity in the 

 year 333, fays, that when Frumentius and (Edefius were in- 

 troduced to the king, who was a minor, they found him 

 reading the Pfalms of David. 



This book, or that of Enoch, does by no means prove 

 that they were at that time Jews. For thefe two were in as 

 great authority among the Pagans, who profefled Sabaifm, 

 the firft religion of the Eaft, and efpecially of the Shepherds, 

 as among the Jews. Thefe being continued alfo in the 

 fame letter and character among the Abyfiinians from the 

 beginning, convinces me that there has not been any other 

 writing in this country, or the fouth of Arabia, fmce that 

 which rofe from the Hieroglyphics. 



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