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Perjian gulph j and we find an extenftve diftrict-, named Palejiine, to thV 

 eaft of the Euphrates and Tigris* The word Palejiine Teems derived from 

 Pallifthdn the feat of the Paifis, or (hepherds (#) : the Samaritans, who 

 before lived in. that country, feem to have been- a remnant pf the Paliis\ 

 who kept themfelves diftincl; from their neighbours, and; probably removed 

 for that reafon to the Palejiine on the more of the Mediterranean - t but, 

 after their arrival in that country, they wifhed to ingratiate themfelves with 

 the Jews and Phoenicians, and, for that purpofe, claimed affinity with 

 them; alledging fometimes, that they were defcended from Jacob, arid 

 at other times, that they fprang from Pinkepa-sj a word pronounced alfo 

 Phineas, and fuppofed (but, I think, lefs probably) to mean the Ton of 

 Aaron. Certainly, the Jews looked upon the Samaritans as a tribe of 

 Philifiines ; £br mount Garizim was called Pali tan and Pel tan. Tre- 

 mellius, in the wifdom of the fon of- Sirach, writes Palifchthaza, but 

 in the Greek we find the Philifiines, who rejide on- the mount of Samaria ; (by. 

 but let us return to Palejiine in- AJJjria* 



Whether the poiterity of PingncJI:a, or the yellow Hindus, divided' 

 themfelves into two bodies, one of which patted directly into Phenice, and* 

 the other went, along the Arabian mores, to' AbyJJznia, or whether the whole 

 nation firft entered the fouthem parts of Arabia, then eroffed over to 

 Africk, and {Qttled in the countries adjacent to the Nile, I cannot deter- 

 mine ; but we have ftrong reafons to believe, that fome or all of them re- 

 mained a.confiderable time on the coafl of Yemen : the Panchean tribes m 

 that country were considered as Indians*; many names of places in it, which 

 ancient geographers mention^ are clearly Sanfcrit, and moft of thofe names 



(■a) Plin. lib. 6. cap. 70. [c\ See Reland De Mcr.te Garizim. 



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