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tilled, nor fown, becaufe not overflowed by 
the Nile; but the land overflowed by the 
Nile, was the black earth of the valley of 
Egypt : and it was here that God confined 
the zimb ; for he fays, it fliall be a fign of 
this reparation of the people, which he had 
then made, that not one fly fliould be feen 
in the fancl, or paflure-ground, the land of 
Goflien. And this kind of foil has ever fince 
been the refuge of all the cattle emigrating 
from the black earth, to the lower part of 
Albara : fo powerful is the wcakelt inftru- 
ment, in the hands of the Almighty. 
