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as far as the seventh generation, to his seerl, \vho were 

 to become successively hereditary gLiardictns of this 

 sacred substance, which proved to he a stone, in 

 which the God was to he understood as mystically 

 typified. This type is duly reverenced, is carefully 

 preserved, and h;irh ever l)cen the constant compa- 

 nion of the sanctified person inlieriting with it the 

 divine patrimony- 



This annunciation happened about the year A. D. 

 1640. and six generations l"\ave since passed away. 



It tloth not now appear what m as the precise ex- 

 tent of the divine energy originally conceded; but 

 it is inferred to have been a limited pouer of work- 

 ing miracles. Such as healing sickly uncleanlinesses, 

 granting to a certain degree the desires of pious sup- 

 phants,"andthe faculty or foretelling, under some re- 

 strictions, the events of futurity. 



These gifts appear, indeed avowedly, tohaveheen 

 enjoyed in a more extensive degree by the first pos- 

 sessors, than by the latter —Tht Bra mi ns admit that 

 the farther the remove fr;)m the favoured man iu 

 whom the God became incaniate, the greyttT is the 

 chance of degeneracy ; although such degeneracy 

 might not have been inevitable. It is th rclore pre- 

 sunjable that the early inheritors worked more con- 

 spicuous miracles than have of late h.cn manifested. 

 — Some remains of supernatural po-,.er have, how- 

 ever, been remarked, as will be noliccd, in tliC exist- 

 ing incumbent, Gabajee Dl . 



The lioly inheritance has thus descended. 



MoORABA GossEYN had but ooe son, Chinto 

 MuN Deo (the ist) at the time of the visitation ; and 

 as he immediately became Sunrui-assee, lie had of 

 course no other ;*^ to him about the year l6.5(), iVU 

 the godly estate. His eldest son Nauuaiw Vjy.o 

 succeeded, and after dispensing his miraculous ener- 

 gies twenty-five years, died, leaving them to Chinto 



