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pus were flayed alive. This happened, according to tlie 

 Jcuifh clironoloj];ills, in the year 120; but, according to 

 Baliiage (lib. vii. c. 12.), in 13S. Akiba was honoured 

 by the Jews, after his death, as an eminent doi^lor of theii' 

 law ; and his tomb, fui)])oted to be at Tiberias, was vilitcd 

 with great lolemnity. He is faid to have altered the He* 

 brew text of the Bil)le, with RTpeft to the age of the pa- 



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IS fo juflly appreciated by Mrs. Barbauld in an EfTay pre- 

 fixed to an ornnmented edition of this poem, publifhed in 

 179J, that we fliall jrratify our readers by fubjoining a part 

 of the funimaiy witii which it concludes. " If the genius 

 of Akenfide is to be ellimated from this poem, it will be 

 found to be lofty and elegant, challe, correct, and claf- 

 fical ; not marked with llrong ti-aits of originality, not 



ardent nor exuberant. His enthufiafm was rather of that triarchs, when they began to have children, which is greater 

 kind which is kindled by reading and imbibing the fpirit of according to the Septuagint than in the Hebrew text ; and 

 authors, than by contemplating at firil hand the works of he did this, it is faid, to put off the period of the MelTiah'3 

 nature. As a verfilier, Akeniide is allowed to Hand amonirlt advent, which, according to the tradition of the Jews, was 

 thofe who have given the moil liniihed models of blank not to take }>lace till the completion of 6000 years. It lias 

 vcrfe. His periods are long but harmonious ; the cadences been argued, that the tranflation of Aquila, which was pub- 

 fall with grace, and the meafure is fupported with uniform lilhed in the 12th year of Adrian, agrees with the Hebrew 

 dignity. His mufe poffefles the mitn ereil, ami high com- text of this time, and that tliis Aquila having gone over 



from the profelHon of Chrillianity to that of the Jcwifli 

 reliijion, and enlifted among the dilciples of Akiba, pei- 



■nuiniFiNg gtiit. We fliall fcarcely find a low or trivial expref- 

 fion introduced ; a carclefs and untinilhed line permitted to 

 l*and. His ftatelinefs, hoCever, is fomewhat allied to lliff- 

 iiefs. His vcrle is fometinies feeble throiiirh too rich a re- 



fuaded liis mailer to make this alteration. Pezron Antiq. 

 c. 16. Tliis charge, however, is feebly lupjjorted, and the 



dundancy of ornament, and fonietimes laboured into a de- diflbnance between the two texts is a difficulty that remains 



Gen. Dicl. Brucker's 



gree of obfcurity from too anxious a delire of avoidin 

 natural and fnnple expreiTions." Biog. Brit. Gen. Bioij. 



AKERKUl", in Geogriiphy, a mountain of Aiiatic Tur- 

 key, call of the Euphrates, iu the cjovernment of Bagdad. 

 Tavernier placed it between the Euphrates and the Tigris, 

 fuppoling that the ruins found here are thofe of the tower 

 of Babel. 



AKERMAN, or Bielcorod, in Geography, a town of 

 Beffarabia, on the coall of the Black Sea, at the month of 

 the Dneiller, 22 miles fouth-call of Bender. E. long. 31" 

 14.' N. lat. 46'' 8'. 



AKERSLOOT, William, in Biugraph\', a painter and he fuggells that it is the A'i/-, i. e, 

 and engraver, who hved at Haarlem, and flouriflicd in 1624. in Scripture. Amos. ix. 7. 



AKERSITND, in Geography, a bay on the coall of AKKIA, an ifiand near the weft coall of Eaft Green- 

 Norway, ten leagues wcil-northlweil of Frederickftadt. land. N. lat. 60° 38'. W. long. 46'. 



AKHISAR, q. d. U'hhc-cajUc, a name given by the AKKIAH, a town of Romania, in European Turkey, 

 Turks to the ancient Thyatira, on account of the white eight miles call of Burgas. 



marble that abounds there. It is a town of Natolia, in AKON]), an officer of jullice in Perfia, who takes cog- 

 Afiatic Turkey, 13 leagues eail-fouth-eaft Pergamo ; nizance of the caufes of orphans and widows ; ofcontratHs, 

 fituate in a fertile plain on the river Hemius, abounding and other civil concerns. He is the head of the fchool of 

 with grain and cotton, and carrying on a commerce of opium law, and gives leftures to all the fubaltern officers ; he has- 

 and Turkey carpets. N. lat. 38'^ 50'. E. long. 28" 30'. his deputies in all the courts of the kingdom, who, with the 



AKI, a province of Japan, in the weftern part of the fecond y;;.*-^, make all contracts, 

 ifland of Kiphon ; with a town of the fame name " "" 



illU to be fatisfactorily folved. 

 Philos. bv Enfield, vol. ii. p. 200. 



A KliVl, in Geography, a town of Africa, on the Gold Coaft. 



AKlUKECli, -I town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia, 

 eight leagues eaft-louth-eall of Kallamoni. 



AKKER, a city of Syria, fituate uiron mount Bargy- 

 his, about nine leagues to the fouth-eall of Toitofa ; alfiv 

 a river that runs by it. This, fays Dr. Shaw, (Trav. p. 2^iy.)- 

 mull have been formerly as noted for its ilrcugth, extent, 

 and beauty, as it is now for tlie-goodnefs of the apricots, 

 peaches, nettarincs, and other fruit, wiiich it produces; 



the city, mentioned 



AKIliA, in B'iugraph\', a famous Jewiffi Rabbi, lived in 

 the firil century of the Chriilian xra, loon after the dellruc- 

 tion of Jciufaleni, and devoted himfclf to the lludy of the 

 Cabballllic philofophy. In the earlier period ot his life, 

 and till he was 40 years of age, he was a fliepherd in the 

 fcrvice of a rich citizen of Jerufalem ; but his mailer's 



AKOUSCHY, in Zoohgy, the Cavia Acufchy, the 

 olive cavy of Pennant, has a (hort tail, with the upper 

 parts of the body of an olive colour, and the under part 

 whitilli. Some have reckoned this animal a variety of the 

 Agouti ; but it differs from it in having a tail, which the 

 other wants, or rather a longer tail than that of the others 

 in being fmaller ; and i)i having its hair of an olive, and not 



daughter having promifed to marr)- him, if he became a a red, colour ; which are diiFliences, fays Bufton^ fufficient 



learned man, he affiduoufly applied to lludy. So fuccefs- 

 ful was his application, that he became one of the moll fanunis 

 teachers in the fehools of Jewilh learning, firil at Eydda, 

 and afterwards at Jafna ; and if the Jewilh accounts may be 

 credited, he had 24,000 dilciples. The Jews of Palelline 



to conllitute two dillinft fpecies. It is about the fi/.e of a 

 half-grown rabbit, is eafily tamed, is hunted with dogs, anet 

 reckoned the fined game in South America. Its flelli is 

 white and delicate, and much elleemed by tlic inhabitants of 

 Guiana, Cayenne, and Brafil, v.liere tliis animal is found. 



elleemed him fo highly, that they fcrupled not to fay, that It inhabits the woods, and lives on iTuits; has fuih a dread 



God revealed to him what he had concealed from Mofes. of water, that it will fubmit to be feized by the dogs rather 



The book intitled Jet/irah, which has been afcribcd to than go into it ; and it will fonietimes, though rarely, cry 



AbrahaiJi, is faid to have been written by him, and, though like the reftlefs cavy. liuflon by SmeUie, vol. v, p. 61, 



it abounds with trifles anel abfureiities, it was quoted by the vol. viii. p. 270. 



jews at this period, as of divine authority. Towards the AKQUEIDAN, in Geography, a town of Africa, with 



dole of his life, Akiba joined the llandard of the impollor a Dutch faftory, on the Gold Coall. 



Barchochcbas, who appeared under the charafter of the AKRIDA, a town of Macedonia, in Eir-opean Turkey, 



Meffiah, to deliver his counti^men from the power of the fituate on the Drino, 124 leagues weft of Conllantinople, 



i-niperor Adrian. When this impoftor was taken prifoner, and 45 leagues fouth-call of Ragufa. N. lat. 41^46'. E.long, 



and his followers put to the* Iword, Akiba and his Ion Pap- 20° 36', 



AKSE, 



