134 ENGRAVEN PILLAKS. [1693- 



Ever be known 



Among thy Peaceable, Reasonable, and Happy Society ; 



Mayst thou ever be free 



From Fraud, Ambition, Avarice, 



Tyranny, and all Villany. 



May 



Virtue, Wisdom, Truth, Fidelity, Innocence, 



Justice, Safety, Abundance, 



Happiness, Peace and Joy, 



Make thy little Terrestrial Paradise the Desire or 



Envy of all Men, 



As a Tast or Semblance 



Of the Paradise which the Angels 



Inhabit." 



As I had done writing these my Vows for this charming 

 Isle, I remeniber'd I had read in the History of the War with 

 the Vandals, written by Procopius, that when that Author 

 was in Africa with Bdisaniis} he found in a city of Numidla 

 two Stone Pillars, on which was Ingrav'd this Inscription in 

 the Fho&nician Tongue ; We are some of those that fled from 

 Joshua the Great liobber.^ 1 had neither Stone nor Marble to 



1 The greatest of Justinian's generals. He was born in Illyria, and 

 his Slavonic name signifies " White Prince", or Bieli Tsar, the title 

 usually bestowed upon the Emperor of Russia by Asiatics. The actual 

 edition, probably, here quoted by Max. Missou was the following : — 



" Vide. Hmtoria Gotlwrvm Vaiulalorvm S)' Langohardorvm: ah Hugune 

 Grotto. Amstelodami, apud Ludovicum Elzevirium (1C55). 



'■^ Art. Vandalica et Gothica, Procopii emendata plurimis locis: 

 accedentibus supplemeutis e Manuscriptis : & sic versa Latine ab 

 Hugone Grotio. 



"Procopii Ctesareensis Historiae Vandalicae Liber Secundus, p. 88. 



" ' Etiam in Kumidia castellum posuere quo loco nunc urbs est dicta 

 Tingis. Hie dupe stant e lajaide candido columnse propter magnum 

 fontem, inscriptse Phcenicias literas, quarum ex sermone Phoeuicio hsec 

 est iuterpretatio. Nos ilii sumus qui prsedonem effugimus lesum Navse 

 filium.' " 



^ Procopius, De Bella Vandalico., lib. 11, cap. vii. The historian of 

 Justinian's wars, speaking of the origin of the Moors in Africa, whom 

 he identifies with the Gergesitcs and Jebusites and other nations over- 

 thrown by the Israelites when they entered Canaan, says these nations, 

 seeing this new captain (Joshua) irresistible, removed from their own 



