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would have been very eafily underftood, Can the negro 

 change his fkin, or the leopard his fpots ? 



Jeremiah * fpeaks of the chiefs of the mingled people 

 that dwell in the deferts. And Ezekielf alfo mentions them 

 independent of all the others, whether Shepherds, or Cu- 

 mites, or Libyans their neighbours, by the name of the 

 Mingled People. Ifaiah J calls them " a nation fcattered 

 " and peeled; apeople terrible from their beginninghitherto; 

 " a nation meted out and trodden down, whofe land the ri- 

 " vers have fpoiled :" which is a fumcient defcription of 

 them, as having been expelled their own country, and fet- 

 tled in one that had fuffered greatly by a deluge a fhort 

 time before. 



* Jerem. chap. xxv. ver. 24. f E&ek. chap. xxx. ver. 5. £Ifa. chap, xviik ver. 2. 



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