24- The Nile is the Nahal Mit2;raim;, 



%Chron.'y.^. i^^.i^. 7. Kumh.^^S- Jo/h. ly. ^y. and, 

 in the Text before us, Pivo-/Jp«p©- : hereby perplexing the very 

 Nature and Quality, as well as the geographical Circumftances 

 of this River, by attributing to it four different Appellations. 

 The Lxx yiyQ lite Difasreement we mav obferve in their Tranflation 



give diffe- . . ' 



rent Inter- pf ^^jy -^nty or mn'tT Sikor or Shibor, another Name, as it will 



pretations ' y^j 



ofnin\£f. appear to he, of The River of Egj'p/. For iC^r. ig. y. where 

 the Original has it. From Shibor of Egypt \ the LXX. render it, 

 ^ o'diffiv AtV^rTV, from the Borders of Egypt. In Jer. i. 18. for 

 the Waters ofSihor, they have the Water ofTm^ : a River which 

 encom^ajfed the whole Land ofChus, a Province of yira¥ta\ 

 Gen. X. ig. In Jofh. 13. 3. inftead of Sihor, which is before 

 Egypt *, they have ^ "rrn aoiw/rv 'nj? xcLxa, 'ZB^tmTn'i Ai^oVry, froM the 

 uninhabited Land, that lyes before Egypt. And in 7/!" 13. 3. for 

 the Seed of Sihor, they have OT^p^wd fxnaiCoAm, the «S6'6'<^ of the 

 Merchants \ miftaking a d Samech for a \d Shin, or "ino for ^r\ii\ 

 In geographical Criticifm therefore, little Strefs can be laid 

 upon the Authority of the LXX. Verfion ; where the Phrafe 

 fo frequently varies from the Original ; and where fo many 

 different Interpretations are put upon one and the fame Thing. 

 mmtorura. Neither will this Author be much better fupported by any 

 Places, re- Authoritics drawu from the Writings of St. ferom 1 becaule 



ceived by . t; 



St. jerom, what is there laid down, in Favour of the LXX. Verfion in one 

 ver of £- Place, wc fliall find to be deftroyed or invalidated at leaft in 

 another. Tro torrente Egypti, (as it is obferved, in his Comment 

 upon Jfz'J. 13.) LXX. Rhinocoruram tranflulerunt, quod eji 

 oppidum in Egypti Talceftinceque confinio : non tam verba S. 

 Scriptune, quamfenfum Verborum exprimentes. And again, 

 (Tom. 3. Ep.'iig.) Torrens Egypti qui juxta Rhinocoruram ?nari 

 magno influit. And again (in his Comment upon y^mos 6. 14.) 

 ^ Hamath ufque ad tor rent em' defer ti five Occident is, (t3» 

 S\jc(jiu^) ut LXX. tranflulerunt, i. e. ab Hamath ad Rhinocoru- 

 ram, inter quam ^ Telufmm rivus Nili five torrens de eremo 

 veniens mare ingreditur. But here Cellarius ( Geogr. Antiq. 

 1. 3. C.13.) rightly obferves, that Rivus Nili, five torrens de 

 eremo y Epanorthofis eft, ^ pofteriore adferto, rejicitur prius. 

 For, if this Torrent be a Branch of the Nile, then it is the 

 very Thing we are difputing ; but if it be a different River, 

 yet ftill, if it falls not in exactly at Rhinocorura\ but fome where 



or 



