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And what is more extraordinary; his Body was afterwards 

 given, to fome of his favourite Janizaries, to be made into 

 Cahah and eaten ; which was accordingly done, at one of their 

 Bagfiios, with great Feftivity and Rejoycing. 



154. 1. 10. To Sounds, add. An Effect fomething hke this 

 feems to be related by Tlin)' (1. i. c. 96. ) Juxta Harpafa op- 

 pidnm yifite cautes fiat horrenda, uno digiio mohilis, eadem^ fi 

 toto corpore impellatur, refisiens. 



aip. 1.4.4. To rarely any Rain at all, add. This likewife 

 feems to have been the Cafe in the H. Land. 1 Sam. 11. 10. 

 where it is mentioned, from Har'veft till rain dropped on them. 

 Their rainy Seafon falling out, as in Barharj, in the Autumnal 

 Months. Bahylon is alfo defcribed, by Straho, (1. 15-. p. 5-06.) 

 to have been in the like Condition, with Tozer, and the Vil- 

 lages of the yeridde : -^^i^c^ J"' ^ %p2»Tai' ^i^ ^ xaTo.aSp5vTa(. 



an. 1. 31. To Fodder, add this Mote. Straw was likewife 

 the ufual Fodder of the H. Land ; as we learn from, i Kings 

 4. X4. where it is faid, they brought alfo Barley and Straw 

 for the Horfes and Dromedaries. 



Ibid. To fliattered to peices ; add. a Circumftance very per- 

 tinently alluded to, tKifigsiT,. 7. where the King oi Syria is 

 faid to have made the Ifraelites like the Duft by threjlnng. 



r%6. 1. 16. ^fter later, add. This is called in England, the 

 Ma [culine Apricot \ the eating of which is never attended 

 with a Surfeit ; 



Z34. To Note 1. add. Fiunt Terra mot us — pracipue vero 

 cum fequitur imbrem ceflti^s, imbrefve aflum. Plin. 1. 1. c. 80. 



i'l6. To Note I. add. This might be intended rather, in 

 Order, to rear therewith an Altar to the God of IfraeL 



X4,7. 1. 3. After Enchantment, add. This feems to have 

 been an ancient Pradlice, as appears from Lucans Expreflion, 

 Lib. VI. — dura Nodti^s Hyana. 



XT 1. 1. 3. Add thk Taragraph, to the Account we have there 

 of the Shagarag. Shagarag, by a fmall Tranfmutation of Let- 

 ters, is the fame Name wdth the ^Vv^ Sharalrah, or '->l/i- 

 Shakarak of the Arabian Authors ; and with the p"ip")ty Sharak- 

 rak of the Talmudifls\ fo called from V^^' fmrak, to fquall, 

 (as I fliould interpret it,) rather than, as the Lexicographi in- 

 terpret it, from Jibilare, to hi fs; anAdion of Voice, which 



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