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and a new one is made in its place, till the fame circum* 

 fiance again happens ; and one of thefe bows, that which its 

 mafter liked beft, is buried with him in the hopes of its ri*- 

 fing again materially with his body, when he mall be en^ 

 dowed with a greater degree of lire ngth, without fear of 

 death, or being. fubjected to pain, with a capacity to enjoy 

 in excefs every human pleafure. There is nothing, how- 

 ever, fpiritual in this refurreclion, nor what concerns the 

 foul, but it is wholly corporeal and material; although 

 fome writers have plumed themfelves upon their fancied 

 difcovery of what they call the. favages belief of the im- 

 mortality of the foul. . 



Before I take leave of this fubject, I muft again explain s 

 from what I have already faid, a difficult paflage in claffical 

 hiftory. Herodotus * fays, that, in the country we have been 

 juft now defcribing, there was a nation calledJVIacrobii,which 

 was certainly not the real name of the Shangalla, but one 

 the Greeks had given them, from a fuppofed circumftance 

 of their being remarkable long livers, as that name imports. 

 Thefe were the wcflern Shangalla, fituated below Guba and 

 Nuba, the gold country, on both fides of the Nile north of 

 Eazuclo. 



The Guba and the Nuba, and various black nations that 

 inhabits the foot of that large chain of mountains called 

 Dyre and Teglaf , are thofe in whofe countries the fineft gold 

 is found, which is waflied from the mountains in the time of 



violent 



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Hera/Llib. 3, par, 17, & feq, + Sappofed to be the Garamantica Vallisof Ptolerny.. 



