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AXUM. 
Abyssinians to Judaism, is taken away, as it was not likely a mo- 
narch so descended, would style himself Son of the God, the invin- 
cible Mars, or erect statues to him on the high road so near to 
the capital. 
" Tellez's assertion, which is referred to Ptolemy, I conceive to 
have been taken from some knowledge of the Adulitic inscription, 
and a wish to confirm it. 
" The same reason seems to have induced Bruce to invent his 
inscription at Axum, which, however, he executed in so unsatis- 
factory a way, as led Dr. Vincent * to remark, even before any one 
after Bruce had visited Axum, " how much more authentic would 
a fac simile of the inscription have been, than the restoration! in 
which, by an error of the author, or the press, EVERPETOT is read 
for EYERrETOT." 
" The subject of the inscription itself is not very interesting, as 
it is merely a record of a successful expedition against a tribe 
called the Bougaeites, whom I suppose, as I have said before, to 
be the Bogenses of Edrisi, in whose country were the mountains of 
Alahahi, famous for their gold-mines. Dr. Vincent (from the letter 
r being dubious in the fourth line of the copy), conjectures them to 
be the inhabitants of Bure, which opinion I had also entertained, 
until I met with the account of the Bogenses above referred to. 
Still, though the general tenor of the subject is not so interesting 
as might have been expected, yet there are several very curious 
particulars interspersed in this record ; such as the hospitality with 
which the King treated the enemies whom he had subdued, and 
the attention which he paid in providing them with meat, breadj 
* Second vol. p. 112. 
