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intitled, An Eflay towards the Recovery of the Jewifh 
Weiglits and Meafures, comprehending their Monies, by 
Help of an ancient Standard, compared with ours of Eng¬ 
land, ufeful alfo to hate many of thofe of the Greeks, 
Romans, and Eaftern Nations; odtavo. The folicitude 
which about this period he felt on account of the efforts 
which were making by James II. to rc-edablilh the popifh 
religion in thefe kingdoms, produced fuch eftefits on Dr. 
Cumberland, that he was attacked by a fevere and dan¬ 
gerous fever; from which, however, he happily reco¬ 
vered to rejoice in the bleflings of the revolution under 
king William, and to be advanced to a more public fitua- 
tion of honour and ufefulnefs. After that great event 
he continued at his reitory, contented with difeharging 
the duties of a private clergyman, without any thoughts 
of foliciting for better preferment. In this fituation, 
walking on a pod-day to the coffee-houfe, to read the 
newfpaper, it was with no fmall furprife that he therein 
met with the intelligence, that Dr. Cumberland, of Stam¬ 
ford, was nominated to the bifhopric of Peterborough. 
It refledts great honour on the memory of king William, 
that he fliould have appointed Dr. Cumberland to that 
dignity, only becaufe from his learning, wifdom, and ex¬ 
cellent character, he was eminently fitted for it. It was 
in 1691 that he entered on the duties of the epifcopal 
office. In this new feene he lived with the fimplicity of 
a primitive bilhop. His principles were moderate and 
Candid, and his piety unaffected and cheerful. His man¬ 
ners were unaffuming, condefcending, and affable. He 
was hofpitable without olientation, and benevolent and 
generous in an exemplary degree. Towards his clergy 
he fhewed a truly paternal care, being chiefly anxious 
by his fuperintendence and exhortations to render them 
refpeftable and ufeful, and taking delight, by every ex- 
preflion of regard and indulgence, to make them eafy and 
happy. His affiduity in the difeharge of his epifcopal 
functions was fo great, that his friends frequently endea¬ 
voured to diffuade him from undergoing fatigues, which 
they feared were fuperior to his drength ; but his facul¬ 
ties remained unimpaired to a very advanced period of 
life. So great was their vigour, that, in his eighty-fourth 
year, when biffiop Wilkins had publifhed his Coptic 
Tefhunent, and prefented him with a copy, he made him- 
felf mailer of that language, and went through a great 
part of the verfion, giving excellent remarks .and hints 
as he proceeded in reading it. He was at length removed 
by a paralytic ftroke, in 1718, in the eighty-feventh year 
of his age. During feveral years of his life, Dr. Cum¬ 
berland had applied himfelf to the examination of San- 
choniatko’s Phoenician Hidory. The curious remains of 
antiquity collected in that work, in which may be traced 
the origin of idolatry in the world, he confidered not to 
have been fo driCtly examined by learned men as they 
deferved, and conceived himfelf capable of correcting 
many miflakes into which fome of the greatefl of them 
had fallen. Thole remains, he was perfuaded, were per¬ 
fectly reconcileable with the Mofaic hiftory, and illudra- 
tive of it. He, therefore, employed much learning and 
labour in fpeculations upon them, and drew up “ Sancho- 
niatho’s Phoenician Hiftory, tranftated from the firft Book 
of Eufebius de Praeparatione Evangelica : with a Conti¬ 
nuation of Sanchoniatho’s Hiftory by Eratofthenes, Cyre- 
naeus’s Canon, &c. illuftrated with many hiftorical and 
chronological Remarks, proving them to contain a Series 
of Phoenician and Egyptian Chronology, from the firft 
Man to the firft Olympiad, agreeable to the Scripture Ac¬ 
counts.” This work, whatever were the reafons, did not 
make its appearance until after the bifliop’s death, when 
it was publifhed by his fon-in-law, the Rev. Mr. Payne, 
And it mull be allowed to abound in many valuable ob- 
fervations, and to throw great light on the hiftory of 
thofe ancient times, by readers who may be far front 
being fatisfied with the hypotliefes, corrections, and de¬ 
ductions, of the learned author. In the courfe of enquiry 
to which the above work gave rife, his lordfhip collected 
Vot. V. No. 288. 
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much freflt matter, which he diftributed into feveral 
traCts, that may properly be confidered as fupplementary 
to the former, under the title of Origines Gentium. Anti- 
quijjiinae ; or, Attempts for difeovering the Times of the 
firft Planting of Nations. This work has alfo been given 
to the world by the editor of the preceding ; and, al¬ 
though confifting only of materials for a more perfeft 
production, will long remain a monument of the deep 
erudition, and calm fpirit of inveftigation, which the 
author pofleffed. 
CUM'BERSOME, adj. Troublefome ; vexatious.— 
Thinking it too early, as long as they had any day, to 
break off fo pleafing a company, with going to perform a 
cumberfome obedience. Sidney. —Burdenfome ; embarralfi. 
ing.—I was drawn in to write the firft part by accident, 
and to write the fecond by fome defeCts in the firft: thefe 
are the cumberfome perquifites of authors. Arbuthnot .—Un¬ 
wieldy ; unmanageable.—Very long tubes are cumber/omy 
and fcarce to be readily managed. Newton. 
CUM'BERSOMELY, adv. In a troublefome manner; 
in a manner that produces hindrance and vexation. 
CUM'BERSOMENESS,_/. Encumbrance; hindrance; 
obftruCtion. 
CUM'BRANCE,yi Burden; hindrance; impediments 
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, 
The wife man’s cuj/ibrance, if not fnare ; more apt 
To flacken virtue, and abate her edge, 
Than prompt her to do aught may merit praife. Milton - 
CUM'BRAY (Little), a fmall ifland of Scotland : 
about half a mile fouth from Great Cumbray. 
CUM'BRAY (Mickle, or Great), an ifland of Scot¬ 
land, about fix miles in circumference, at the mouth of 
the river Clyde, between the ille of Bute and the county 
of Air. 
CUM'BROUS, adj. Troublefome; vexatious; dis¬ 
turbing : 
A cloud of cumbrous gnats do him moled. 
All firiving to infix their feeble dings, 
That from their noyance he no where can red. Spenfer „ 
Oppredive ; burdenfome: 
Henceforth I fly not death, nor would prolong 
Life much 1 Bent rather, how I may be quit, 
Faired and eafied, of this cumbrous charge. Milton. 
Jumbled; obftruCting each other: 
Swift to their feveral quarters haded then 
The cumbrous elements, earth, flood, air, fire. Milton. 
CUM'FREY,y. [con/olida.] A medicinal plant. 
CUMIA'NA, a town of Italy, in the principality of 
Piedmont: five miles north of Pinerolo, and twelve 
fouth-wed of Turin. 
CUMIE'RES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Marne, celebrated for its wines : one leagiie north- 
wed of Epernay. 
CU'MIN.y. in botany. See Cuminum. 
CU'MINI, f. in botany. See Myrtus. 
CUMINOI'DES, f in botany. See Lagoecia. 
CUMI'NUM, J. [mx^x to y.vTiw, pragnans ejje y from 
its fertility.] In botany, the herb Cumin; a genus of 
the clafs pentandria, order digynia, natural order of um¬ 
bellate or umbelliferoe. The generic characters are—> 
Calyx: umbel univerfal and partial, often four-parted ; 
involucre univerfal of as many leaves, which are very 
long, perfectly entire, but in fome three-cleft; partial 
fimilar; perianthium proper fcarce manifeft; florets all 
fertile. Corolla: univerfal uniform; proper of five pe¬ 
tals, inflex-cmarginate, lomewhat unequal. Stamina: 
filaments five, Ample; antherie Ample. Piftillum: germ 
ovate, larger than the flower, inferior; dyles two, very 
fmall; ftigmas Ample. Pericarpium: none; fruit ovate, 
ftriated. Seeds: two, ovate, itriated on one fide and 
convex, on the other flat .—EJfential Character. Involucres 
four-cleft; umbellules four ; fruit ovate, driated. 
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