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children of Ifr'ael, See how I have punifhed the F.gyr»- 

 tians, ..while I bore you up on the wings of the Racharaa, 

 that is, of parental tendernefs and affection, and brought 

 you home to myfelf. It is our part to be thankful that the 

 truths of Holy Scripture are preferved to us entire, but 

 Hill it is a rational regret thai great part .of the beauty of 

 the original is loft. . 



Notwithstanding all thathas been faid, this bird has been 

 mil/taken nearly by all the interpreters Hebrews, Syrians, and 

 Samaritans; the Greeks, from imaginations of their own, 

 have thought it to be the pelican, the ftork, the fwan, and 

 the merops. Bochart, after a variety of guefTes, acknowled- 

 ges his own ignorance, and excufes it by laying equal 

 blame upon others. Hitherto, fays he, we have not been 

 able to condefcend upon what bird this was, becaufe thofe 

 that have wrote concerning it were as ignorant in the na- 

 tural hiitory of things as they were fkilful in the interpreta- 

 tion of words. . 



The point of the beak of this bird is black, very (harp 

 and ftrong for about three quarters of an inch, it is then 

 covered by a yellow, flemy membrane, which clothes it as 

 it were both above and below, as likewife the forepart of 

 the head and throat, and ends in a fharp point before, nearly 

 oppofite to Where the neck joins the bread ; this membrane 

 is wrinkled, and has a few hairs growing thinly fcattered 

 upon the lower part of it. It has large, open noftrils, 

 and prodigious large ears, which* are not covered by 

 any feathers whatever. The body is perfect, white from 

 the middle of the head, where it joins the yellow mem- 

 brane,, down to the tail. The large feathers of its wing 



are 



