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ceros alone is erect and perpendicular to this bone, on which 

 it Hands at right angles, thereby poffefling a greater pur- 

 chafe, or power, as a lever, than any horn could poflibly 

 have in any other pofition. 



This fituation of the horn is very happily alluded to in 

 the facred writings:," My horn- Ihalt thou, exalt like the 

 " horn of an unicorn* :!' and the horn here alluded to is 5 

 not wholly figurative, as I have already taken notice of in 

 the courfe of my hiftory f, but was really an ornament, worn 

 by great men in the days of victory, preferment, or rejoi- 

 cing, when they were anointed with new, fweet, or frefh 

 oil, a circumftance which David joins with that of erecting 

 the horn.. 



Some authors, for what reafon I know not, have made 

 the reem, or unicorn, to be of the deer or antelope kind, 

 that is, of a genus whofevery character is fear and weak- 

 ness, very oppofite to the qualities by which the reem is 

 defcribed in fcripture ; befides, it is plain the reem is not of 

 the clafs of clean quadrupeds ; and a late modern travel- 

 ler, very whimfically, takes him for the leviathan, which 

 certainly was a fifb. It is impoffible to determine which 

 is the allied opinion of the two. Balaam, a prieft of Mi- 

 dian, and fo in the neighbourhood of the haunts of the 

 rhinoceros, and intimately connected with Ethiopia, for 

 they themfelves were fhepherds of that country, in a tran- 

 fport, from contemplating the ftrength of Ifrael whom he 

 was brought to curfe, fays, they had as it were the ftrength 



of 



* Pfalm xeii. ver. io. f Vol. iii. p. 220. 



