having the honour of being acquainted with him. 
Ought he not to know when there is any queftion 
abôut Etymology , at leaft, in thefe Languages , 
that the Radical letters decide the point ? How then 
can Sarazins in French or Englifh, Saraceni in La- 
^tin, from which we have borrowed it, or in Greek 
and in Arabick Sarakioun be derived from 
Sara, Netchim^ or (to gratifie his thought more) from 
Sara Nechin , feeing according to the very letters 
which he affigns to Sara Nechin, the chief ch*araâ:er 
of Nechin:, which is the firft of Nun, is not at all in 
Sarazin, as the Chin which he eludes, and makes the 
Engliflfi his Vouchers for it, cannot^ be. But from 
the Etymology, let us proceed to the Signification ; 
Where hath that Author found that ^ara Netchia 
fignifies thofe that feat themfelves in the Fields ? 
This word hath feveral fignifications, which have 
no affinity to that. The word which fignifies a De-^ 
fart, or barren Plain, is Sahhra, with a hh, . which 
can in no manner of way, no more than the Sad, 
wherewith that word begins, enter into the Etymo- 
logy of Sarazins, feeing Oriental Authors have never 
ufed a Hha nor Sad, in writing the Plural Sarakioun 
or Sarakin, Sarazins, whereof the Arabick root is 
Sarak to Rob (the chief bufinefs of that People) that 
hath for Radical letters a Sin, a Re, and a Kof, which 
Kof the Greeks mark by a Kappa, and we as well as 
the Latins, by a C, the pronunciation whereof we 
have Ibftened by a 2, oran^S, faying ^^r^^z/^^ or 
Sara/ms, inftead of Saracins : Whereupon it is fur- 
ther to be obferved, that the Sarazins are not the 
Turcomans, as is mentioned in the Book of the Corona- 
tion : Thefe laft came from thefartheft North, and 
the Sarazins from the South. When firft the word 
Sarazins or Saracins came into ufe, it was not known 
what the Turcomans were. The name of Sarazins was 
given to the Ifhmaelitifh Arabians,or th^Agareneans, 
to wit, the Arabs of the Defart, who live not in 
Towns, and who practice at prefent (as they did 
many Ages fince) the trade of Robbing, which got 
them the name of Sarazins, without doubt, long 
before the Englifl), who pronounce the Shines 
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