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who was followed by Bate and Paikhurst, and 

 more recently by professor AVilscjn, of tlic univer- 

 sity of St. Andrews, in North Brit.iin. 



The antiquity and importance of the iV//?/6 have 

 also been maintained, during the period in ques- 

 tion, hy the great Albert Schulteirs *, of Leyden ; 

 by the learned professor James R(/bertson, of 

 Edinbur/rh; and by tlie celebrated orientalist, 

 professor Tychsen, of Germany. On the otlier 

 liand, the points have found zealous opponents in 

 the same period, in Sharpe, of Great Britain ; in 

 Diipuis, a learned Frenchman ; and in the cele- 

 brated John David ■Michaelis, of Germany |. The 

 result of this controversy seems to be a general 

 impression, among those most competent to judge, 

 that the points cannot boast of that anri(]uity 

 which Schultens and Robertson would assign to 

 them J ; but that they were invented b}^ men 

 deeply skilled in the language ; that they serve as 

 a good commentary, and are therefore of great 

 utility, and deserve to be respectfully regarded. 



In 1736 bishop Hare published a plan for as- 

 certainino; and restoring the Ilebrexv Metre 4. He 



* Albert Schultens wns born in \6QC), and died at Leyden in 

 1741. He was first professor of the oriental languages at Frane- 

 ker, and afterwards at Leyden, where he tauglit tliem till liis 

 death. He was a stupendous orientalist. 



f Professor Michaelis, in the former part of kis life, was fa- 

 vourable to the points ; but afterwards changed his opinion. He 

 was one of the most stupendous oriental scholars of the age, and 

 probably one of the greatest that ever existed. 



X Clavis Vcntatcuchi : she Anal pis Omnium Foe urn Hebraicarum, 

 &:c. J//cVy/r Jacobo Robertson, S.T.D. Lini;: Orient, in Araif. 

 Edin. Vrof. 8vo, 1/70. 



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