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'the fame in the Ethiopic, where Tfaltfalya alone fignrfles 

 dog-fly, without the addition of any other word whatever. 

 What is the derivation of this is doubtful, becaufe there are 

 feveral words, both in the Ethiopic and Hebrew, that are 

 exceedingly appofite and probable. Salal, in the Hebrew, 

 fignifies to buzz, or to hum, and, as it were, alludes to the 

 noife with which this animal terrifies the cattle : and Tfalt- 

 falya feeras to come from this, by only doubling the radi- 

 cals, t'Tfalalou, in Amharic, fignifies to pierce with vio- 

 lence ; from this is derived Tfalatie, the name of a javelin 

 with a round point, made to enter the rings of a coat of 

 mail, which, by its {tincture, is impervious to the round 

 cutting points of the ordinary lance or javelin. In the book 

 of Job* this feems to mean a trident, or fifliing-fpear, and 

 is vaguely enough tranflated Habergeon in the Inglifli 

 copy, I do not know that this infect, however remarkable 

 for its activity and numbers^ has ever befox-c been defcribed 

 qv delineated. 



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* Chap. xli. ver. 2.6. 



