I 336 3 



Thus in the 12th book of the Odyfley ycttxonly means an 

 ifland p. 



— — v$6 Tig uXXti 

 Qtzivero yecioibiV, «A\' agaves, ij^s §uXez<ro m c&, Od. M. 403. 



It fometimes is ftill more circumfcribed, and relates to the foil 

 immediately under our feet, as in the firft book of the Iliad. 



Hon $e iTK9i7rjpov j3&Xe ycay, as alfo, 



pee Fc&tfJioiTt yociot. 



Iliad. A. 451. 



The fenfe of the word (terra) equally depends upon the context, 

 and does not always import the whole furface of the globe, as in 

 the following line of Virgil : 



Poftquam altum tenuere artes, nec jam amplius ullae 

 Apparent terrae— — » 

 Sometimes no more than a very fmall portion of foil, as 



haud paravero, 



Quod aut avarus ut Chremes terra premam ; 

 Difcinctus aut perdam ut nepos. 



Horat. Epod. i. 



I (hall now fhew that the earth is neceffarily ufed in a con- 

 fined fenfe in fome of the chapters of Genefts which relate to the 

 flood. 



" There were giants in the earth in thofe days," Gen. xi. 4. 

 where it rnuft mean the adjacent country, for I believe it never 

 was contended, that there were at this time giants over the whole 

 furface of the globe. The fenfe of the word being thus afcertained 



p What thus follows is printed chiefly from vol. IV. of the Archaeo- 

 logia, p. 323, & feq. 



when 



