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Hands, differs inconfiderably from what they, moll 
probably, made it. What his genuine number was, 
is difficult to determine; but, from what hath been 
faid, I am inclined to think it was H H H 300 ; and 
that it was changed by accident afterwards, by the 
negligence of tranlcribers, or by fome interpolator, 
to make it more conformable to the received chro- 
nology, into H H H H 400, as in ourprefent printed 
copies. 
And, in favour of this correction, it may be re~ 
marked, that Arifteas, the Proconnefian, as we are 
informed by Strabo (72), was, according to fome, 
I Tomer’s matter. This Arifteas feems placed, by He- 
rodotus, 340 years before his time (73); but Mr. 
Dodwell (74) intimates as if he had found, in fome 
copies of this author, only 240 ; and fays, that this 
number is confirmed by Tzetzes(75). 
I have now finiffied all that I final! trouble your 
lordffiip with, at prefent, upon this head. What 
hath been here advanced, your lordffiip will regard. 
(72) Pag. 946. , „ , . 
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Pag. 227. 
(74) Quo tamen in loco 240 legunt, ni fallor alia exemplaria, 
fuffragante, ut arbitror, in Chiliadibus Joanne Tzetze. De Cyc. 
Vet. p. 130. 
( 75 ) After telling the fame ftory that Herodotus doth of Arifteas’s 
death and revival, he adds, 
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