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c^ further Vindication of the Book of Travels and 

 the Supplement to it, in a Letter to The Right 

 Reverend Robert Clayton D. D. Lord Bifhop of 



Clogher. 



My lord, 



IN perufing your late valuable Prefent of The Chronology 

 of the Hehrew Bthle Vindicated^ I find your Lordfliip 

 difagrees with me therein in fome Geographical and 

 Hiftorical Circumftances ; and as I have often experienced 

 your Lordlhip s great Candour and Goodnefs, and that Truth, 

 as you were pleas'd to acquaint me, was all you aim'd at in 

 thefe curious Difquifitions, I fliall beg Leave, with as much 

 Brevity as I can, to vindicate, or at leaft apologize for, fuch 

 Miftakes as I am charged with by your Lordfliip. 



Your firfl: Obje6tion then (p. 191.) regards the Interpreta- 

 tion which the Rahhinical Writers have put upon Gen. 4,5-. ix. 

 Behold your Eyes fee ^z. and the additional Comment which 

 I have given to that Interpretation. Su^fl. Pref p. vii. Now 

 as I am well apprized how cautious and diffident we ftiould be in 

 Decifions of this critical Nature, I ventur'd to offer this Text 

 (explained, as it was, according to the Hebrew Didion and 

 Brevity) as one flaufihle Argument only, why Circumcifion 

 might, at that Time, have been unknown to the Egypians. 

 Whereas your Lordfliip charges me with being of Opinion, that 

 the Tranfadion there recorded, was a fufficient Troof of it ; 

 an Expreffion, my Lord, quite different from a plaufible y^r- 

 gumentj as I durft only call it. 



For let theRemarks of the Rabbinical CommQntSitorSj as your 

 Lordfliip obferves, be never fo fal/e and abfurd; (and indeed 

 very frequently they arefo;) yet there feenis to be fomething 

 more intended by this Text, than the fimple Fa6t of Jofep/js 

 difcovering hinifclf to his Brethren by fpeaking to them in their 

 own Language ; or than His appealing ( as your Lordfliip 

 interprets it,) not only to his Brethren y but alfo to his Brother 



A Benjamin^ 



