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laris) aqtiarmn Jpeciem refer at ; ^ hicce arenarum fplendor 

 ^ radiatio Arah'ihis dicitur ^^^>-' ferab i. e. aquce fuperficies, 

 feu fuperficialis aquarum fpecies. — Htnc et'iam nominis AiStin 

 rattopetipotefi—cum J^'^i^ contr actum fit pro N'nnb, a ^n*? flamma 

 — a fulvefcentibus arenis ardore pene inflammat'is. 



419. Add, to the Note i. the following Authorities. 



Tars ohfcura cavis celehrahant orgyia ciftis. Catullus. 

 — tacita plenas for?nidine ciflas. Val. Flacc. 



418. To the Hi/lory of the Storky add. No lefs extraordi- 

 nary are thofe Flights of Pigeons, that have been obferved in 

 New-England and in other Parts of America. 



4.51. 1. g. Add. Rice or Orjza, as we learn from 7%';?/ (1. 18. 

 c. 7.) was the Olyra of the Ancients. 



435. To the ^^uilitj of the Mud of the Nile ; and, p.4.3 8. to 

 the fuccef/tve Cidture of the Soil, from the Higher to the Lower 

 Egypt ; and to the opening and pjutting of the Mounds, (ibid.) 

 add thefe Annotations from Abdollatiph'^ Hi/l. j^gypt, p. (S. 

 Advenit jEgypto lutum nigrum vifcofum, cut inek multum 

 pinguedinis, di6imn Al-Abliz. Advenit hoc e regionibm Ni- 

 gritarum aquis Nili in incremento fuo admixtum, ^ deceden- 

 te aqua fuhfidet lutum, tumque aratur i;;^ feritur. Et quotan- 

 nis advenit ipfi recens lutum, — Oh ham caufam Terra Said 

 'vegeta eji, ?nulti proventus pahuUque, quia initio propior eft, 

 ideoque ad eam pertingit magna hujus luti copta, contra ac in- 

 ferior teme pars ; ( near Damiata as we may fuppofe and 

 Rozetto,) ea fiquidem flirilis eft ^ macilenta, quia lutum ejiis 

 tenue eft ^ dehile, fiquidem aqua quce ad ea?n per'venit tenuis 

 eft ^ limpida. — Incrementum Nili ad finem pervenit fuh 

 (equinoxio autumnali, tum autem recluduntur aggeres, qui 

 omnes teme partes inundant. p. 5". 



440. Tlje Situation of Damiata, upon the Sea Coaft, A. D. 

 1143. feems to he confirmed hy Abdollatiph^ who lived ahout 

 that Time. Damiata Lat. qua eft ultimus Egypti terminus eji 

 graduum triginta uniu6 ^ tertice partis gradus. Hift. ^.gypt. 



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44X. 1.3 5. Add, To the boafted Antiquities of the Egyptians, 

 the following Ohfernjation. Herodotus, always too credulous 

 with Regard to the Egyptian Antiquities, infifts likewife that 

 Circumcifion was much earlier received by Them, than by the 



b X Syrians 



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