4^4 OMAR. 



to every object of information makes them flight what- 

 ever difficulty may lie in their way. A difference of 

 twelve or twenty kalian miles is of no moment to them. 



Although much is already done in the three above- 

 mentioned cities; yet difcoveries flill remain to be 

 made fufficient to employ the coming century. At 

 Pozzuolo, Baia, Cuma, Mifenum, and other places, 

 where the opulent Romans were wont to have their 

 magnificent country-houfes, as great treafures may pro-*' 

 bably be dug up, as in thefe three roman cities ; and 

 difcoveries may be made at much lefs expence. But 

 110 private man is permitted to make any confiderable 

 pit, that all future difcoveries may be referved for the 

 king. 



OMAR. 



A narrative; in seven chapters. 



CHAP. I. 

 OMAR COES TO A WISE MAN. 



In thofe times when the mohammedan Arabs 

 were purfuing commerce, agriculture, and the arts of 

 life, and the chriftian Europeans were dividing their 

 time between theology and rapine, there lived a man 

 near Bagdat who was in high reputation for wifdom, 

 He had formerly had an employment at court, under 

 the califs ; bu f having fent back to the favourite mif- 

 trefs an ailignr^ent on the public treafury, he laid 



down 



