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^ueen of S aha vijits Jerttfalem—Abyjfinian 'Tradition concerning Her—- 

 Suppofed Founder of that Monarchy — Abyjfmia embraces the yewijh 

 Religion — yewijh Hierarchy Jiill retained by the Falafha — Some Con- 

 jeclures concerning their Copy of the Old Tejlament. 



IT is now that I am to fulfil my promife to the reader, of 

 giving him fome account of the vifit made by the Queen 

 of Sheba*, as we erroneously call her, and the confequences 

 of that vifit ; the foundation of an Ethiopian monarchy, and 

 the continuation of the fceptre in the tribe of Judah, down 

 to this day. If I am obliged to go back in point of time, it 

 is, that I may preferve both the account of the trade of the 

 Arabian Gulf, and of this Jewifh kingdom, diftinc~t and un- 

 broken. ' . . 



We are not to wonder, if the prodigious hurry and flow 

 of bufmefs, and the immenfely valuable transactions they- 

 had with each other, had greatly familiarifed the Tyriansr 



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*ltfhould properly be Saba, Azab, or Azaba, all fignifyisg Soutfi, 



