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E S S A Y torpards the Recovery of the Jewifli 
Weights and Meafures, Comprehending their Money, 
by help of Ancient Standards compared with oars of 
England, By Richard Cumberland, D. D. in OBam^ 
London) i(58^.. 
^ 1 ^He Learned Author of this Treatifi^ has with a great 
1 deal of Induftry and Judgment, ColleQed the fev^eral 
Teitimonies both Ancient and Modern, Sacred and Profane, 
that may give any Ught into the difcovery of the Ancient 
JewijhWeights and Me af tires : In the doing whereof he re- 
lies chiefly upon the Tryais of Mr. Gr^4^'^^, whole Integri- 
ty was never yet queflioned, and who with his own hands 
compared our £/?^///& S/^W^r^ F<:?^r with the feveral foreign 
Meajures our Author has occafion to ufe : The Book con- 
fills of Four Chapters, whereof the firjt byway oiPrefaccj 
gives an account of the Method proper to be ufed in this 
Difcovery. The/^-^d^W proves by many Arguments the hke- 
lihood that the ^emjh Jmmdj or Cubit^ was the (ame with 
the prefent Egyptian Cdit ; to do^which^ he alledges that the 
ufuai Rife oUNilm^ neceffary for the fertilizing of Egyp^ was 
in tliQ days of Herodotfi^y as well as now, about i6 Cubits', 
whence he concludes, that the old Cubit of Egjpt is not al- 
tered, but the Divifions on the Nilometrion are the fime as 
in all Antiquity : Alio that the conftant neceffity of Survey- 
ing their Lands, by reafbn the Annual over-flowing does 
Efface their Land-marks, obliged them to obferve a con- 
ftant Stmdard to avoid confufion. Next he alledges this C//- 
hit not to have been altered by any Conqneli ; the Bahy!o?ti.m 
Cubit of Five Palms being fhorter, and that of Six being the 
fame; that their next Conquerors the Greeks and Romans^ have 
their C#/^ confiderably iliorterj and that the Turks their 
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