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world. Adam's remains, after the flood, were divi- 

 ded among his posterity, and his scull fell to the 

 share of S hem, who deposited it in a vault on mount 

 Cahary, near the holy hill of Moriah or Moreh, 

 The inhabitants of Ceylon showed formerly one of his 

 teeth; and they have now one of his tusks : for their 

 last Ad7VM or Budd'ha, was incarnate in the shape 

 of an elephant ; and ascended into heaven, from the 

 summit of the peak of Adam. Muselmans, who 

 were settled in the Peninsula, and in that island, at a 

 very early period, concluded, and not without some 

 plausible ground, that this Budd'ha must have been 

 Adam: and accordingly, Persian -writers gravely in- 

 form us, that Adam was' banished to Ceylon, and 

 thence translated into heaven, from the summit of 

 the peak, which was denominated after him. Za- 

 RADES, ZoROADES or Zauat was the name given, by 

 the Chaldeans, to the eldest Zoroasteu, claimed 

 equally by the Persians. Some say that Belus 

 taught the Chaldeans astronomy, whilst others in- 

 sist, that it was Zarades or Zoroaster, whom 

 several learned men consider as the same with 

 MizRAiM, the son of Ham. Be this as it may, the 

 eldest Zarades was the son of Oromazes, the spirit 

 of heaven, according to Suidas. Like Adam, he 

 directed that his bones should be carefully preserved: 

 his precepts for a long time were complied with; 

 and his relics, carefully and secretly entombed, like 

 those of Bala or Budd'ha, like the limbs of Osiris, 

 and like those of Bacchus at Delphi, became an 

 object of worship. The eldest Zoroaster, called 

 Zarades, Zoroades and Zarates by the Chaldeans, 

 is probably the same with Belus and the Saurid of 

 Arabian writers : and the Goddess Zaretis was 

 probably his consort. Several learned oriental wri- 

 ters insist that Zoroades, or Zoroaster assisted at 



