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and a new one is made in its place, till the fame circum* 

 ftance again happens ; and one of thefe bows, that which its 

 mailer liked bell, is buried with him in the hopes of its ri- 

 fing again materially with his body, when he fliall be en- 

 dowed with a greater degree of ftrengih, without fear o£ 

 death, or being fubjeded to pain, with a capacity to enjoy 

 in excefs every human pleafure. There is nothing, how- 

 ever, fpiritual in this refurredtion, nor what concerns the 

 foul, but it is wholly corporeal and material; although 

 fome writers have plumed themfelves upon their fancied 

 difcovery of what they call the favages belief of the im- 

 mortality of the foul. 



Before I take leave of this fubjeft, Imuft again explain, 

 from what I .have already faid, a difiicuk paflage in claffical 

 hiftory. Herodotus * fays, that, in the country we have been 

 juil now defcribing, there wasa nation called Macrobii,which 

 was certainly not the real name of the Shangalla, but one 

 the Greeks had given them, from a fuppofed circumllance 

 of their being remarkable long livers, as that name imports. . 

 Thefe were the weflern Shangalla, fituated below Guba and • 

 Nuba, the gold country, on botU fides of the Nile north of. 

 lazuclo. 



The Guba and theNviba, and various black nations that 

 inhabits the foot of that large chain of mountains called 

 Dyre and Tcglaf, are thofe in whole countries the fineft gold 

 is found» which is w^flied from the mountains in the time of 



violent 



* •-Hsrpa. lib. 3> car..J7. k f:^- ■ t Suppofed to be. the Caramantita Vallis of Ptolemy. 



