2 The Bp of ClogherV Objections confidered. 



Benjamin, who under flood the Hebrew Language (and perhaps 

 no other) to conmnce htm he was his Brother. For as it ap- 

 pears plainly from JofepF?, having fpoken to them hitherto by 

 an Interpreter, that the Hehrew Language was known to other 

 Perfons befides himfelf, in the Court of Tharaoh ; fo his con- 

 verfing with them therein could not be the only /^ith'^^pv of his 

 being their Brother ; other Tokens confequently, fuch as have 

 been given by the Rahhnical WntQis, might have been necef- 

 fary to identify hisPerfon, and fatisfy his Brethren that he was 

 jfofeph. And befides if his Native Language alone had been 

 fufficient for this Purpofe, there would have been no Neceffity 

 for fending out the Egyptians and ordering his Brethren to come 

 near him ; Circumftances which feem to import that otjier 

 Pifcoveries were to be made, which required a nearer Approach 

 to his Perfon. 



Tou arefurprizd (p. 199.) at the Error which I am unwarily 

 led into hy following the LXXII Verfton and Jofephm, and 

 thereby ma¥mg the Tatriarch Jofeph to have met his Father 

 Jacob, in his Way toEgypt, at Heroopolk : (which City, called at 

 prefent Adjeroute, I have defcrib'd, agreeably to this tradi- 

 tionary Record, to lie in the direct Road betwixt Beerfheba 

 and Memphis^ but out of the direct Road betwixt Beer/beba 

 and Zoan\ and that Memphis confequently and notZoan muft 

 have been the Metropolis.) Now to confute this Syftem ofDr, 

 Shaw, your Lordfhip takes Notice, there needs no other Au^ 

 thoriiy than T)r. Shaw's own Works ; fince Zoan is particularly 

 Ipeciffd, Tfal.^'^. 11, 4.3. as that Tart of the Land of Egypt ^^ 

 where Mofes perform' d his Signs and his Wonders ; and 2)r. 

 Shaw {Trav.p. 34.1.) fuppofes Memphis to have been fituated, 

 where Geeza now flands, on the Weflern Shore of the Nile, di- 

 reQly oppofite to Cairo or Ramefes : {Trav. ^.54.3.) So that it is 

 almoft impofftble for any one to go to Memphis, without going 

 through the Land of Zoan. The Land of Zoan then, if I rightly 

 apprehend your Lordfhip, is fuppofed to be the fame with 

 Gofhen ; if lb, then you feem to have been unwarily led into 

 this Objection, by affirming, (p. 185-, 186 &c.) Zoan oxTanis, 

 and On or Heliopolis to have been one and the fame City. 

 Whereas they were unqueftionably very different; the former 

 lying low down in the T>elta, where Manfourah is fuppofed to 

 be at prefent ; the other is fituated above the Delta, at twenty 



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