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And, as 7 : l6o :: 5 : 1 14-5- inches = g feet 6-f- inches, the stature of the same 

 as determined by the breadths of the bregmas. 



The mean between these two is Q feet -^ inch nearly. 



2dly. As 9 + 7 : 51- + 3 ••: l6o : 107 -i- inches = 8 feet 1 1-^- inches; differing 

 only -J- of an inch from the former way. 



3dly. By the geometrical means, as v/Q X 7 : ^5|- X 5, that is, as ^63 : 

 \/284 :: l6o : 180 inches or Q feet ; which being nearly a mean between the two 

 former, it may be accounted the most accurate of all. 



Hence then the statures being 13 feet 4 inches, and g feet, or l6o inches and 

 108 inches, are to each other as 40 to 27. 



j4n Account, by the Rev. Zachary Pearce* D. D. F. R. S. of a Book, entitled. 

 Rejections Critiques sur les Histoires des Anciens Peuples, ^c, Paris 1735 

 Ato. in 2 vols. N° 456, p. 3 13. 



The general design of M. Fourmont, the author of this book, is to rectify 

 the history of the most ancient nations, particularly the Chaldeans, Hebrews 

 Phoenicians, Egyptians, Greeks, &c. down to the time of Cyrus, the founder 

 of the Persian empire. The work consists of 3 books. 



In the first of which, he gives, at length, the famous fragment of Sancho- 

 niathon the Phoenician, as translated by Philo Byblius, and preserved by Eu- 

 sebius, in his Prasparatio Evangelica, lib. I. cap. 9. With this fragment he 

 has published a French version of it, in which he endeavours to distinguish 

 between the account given by Sanchoniathon the author, and what he supposes 

 to be the additions of Philo the Greek translator. After this he examines into 

 the reasons brought by several of the learned, for and against the genuineness 

 of the fragment, and determines in favour of it, with as much weight of argu- 

 ment as the question will admit. He then takes notice of a treatise, written 

 on the same subject as his own, by our learned countryman Bishop Cum- 

 berland ; and having examined and declared his dislike of the Bishop's scheme 



* Dr. Zachary Pearce, a celebrated English bishop, and F. R. S. was bom in 1690, and educated 

 at Westminster; whence he was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge; while there, he wrote se- 

 veral papers in the Spectator and Guardian. In 1724 he published an edition of Longinus; and his 

 next work was a treatise, " On the Origin and Progress of Temples." 



In 1739, Dr. Pearce was made dean of Westminster, and in 1748, bishop of Bangor. In 1756, 

 he was translated to the see of Rochester, with the deanery of Westminster. He died in 1774- 

 and an elegant monument to his memory is erected in Westminster Abbey. 



Bishop Pearce published an edition of Cicero de Officiis; also A Review of the Text of Milton; 

 an Accovint of Trinity College, Cambridge; and several other esteemed works. And, since his 

 death, there have been published his Sermons, in 4 vols. 8vo. ; also his Commentary on the Gospels 

 and the Acts of the Apostles, in 2 vols. 4to. 



