4797) 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, ie 
ws it not an overfight in your cor- 
refpondent, Mr. Tay.or, to fay 
(page 260, in Mag. for April) that 
«© Mofes introduces, a darkne{s over the 
face of the deep, without even infinuat- 
ing that there was any caufe of its exift- 
ence >?’ Now, fir, I think, that fo far 
from not infinuating that there was a 
caufe, Mofes exprelsly mentions it ; his 
words are: ‘ In the beginning God 
created the heavens and the earth; and 
the earth was without form, and void, 
and darkucfs was upon the face of the 
waters.’ If tt was afked, what was 
this darknefs? it would, with propriety, 
be anfwered, ftagnate air; for the word 
which, in the firit verfe, is tranflated 
heavens, is alfo frequently rendered air; 
we read of the fowls of the LE? 799, 
or air, and wrt which. fignitves, 
as a verb, to impede, to keep back, 
and to ftagnate, is here ufed asa 
deferiptive name of the fluid; before ir 
is; Waid.) “the g syst, or {pirit,, moved 
on the face of the waters. But leaving, 
for the prefent, the Monads, Duads, 
and ‘Triads, of the philofophers, fure- 
ly no fcholar can be at a lo!s for beauti- 
ful and fublime defcriptions of nature, 
or its Supreme Author, fince we have 
had fo many great men, whofe learning 
and tafte have at all times been:acknow- 
ledged, and who have confeffed, that 
many paffages in the Scriptures~ ftood 
unrivalled, for their fuperior excellence 
to all other writings whatever. Cer- 
tainly, then, their tafe and difcernment 
may be fufpetied, that cannot perceive 
thofe reiterated inftances of the various 
exceilencies, and beautiful paflages, that 
are to be met with in the Scriptures, 
Neither need we go to any other book 
for fome of the fineit defcriptions of the 
Pirft Caufe of things; for we thould 
‘exalt the Lord our God, and worfhip at 
his foot-ftool, for he is hcly.” How 
beauti‘ul and fublime is that addrefs of 
David, when gifts were prefented for the 
temple, 1 Chron. x. 11 and 12 verfes: 
“And David faid, bleffed be thou, 
Lord God of Ifrael, our father, for 
ever andever! Thine, O Lord, is the 
greatnefs, and the power, and the glory, 
and the victory, and the majeity ; for al! 
that is in the heaven and in the earth is 
thine. Thine is the kingdom, O Lord; 
thou art exalted head, above all. Both 
riches and honour «come of thee, and thou 
reigneft over all; and in thy hand is 
power and might, and in thy hand it is 
to make great and to give flrength unto 
Scriptures. defended....Blood ufed for Food. 
443 
all.’ After reading in Tfaiah, ch. xl. 
12, and 22 verfes: 
Who hath meafured the waters in the hollow 
of his hand, 
And hath meted out the heavens by his fpan, 
And hath comprehended the duft of the earth in 
arderce 5 
And hath weighed in fcales the mountains, 
and the‘hills in a balance ? 
It is he that fitteth on the circle of the earth, 
And the inhabitants are to him as grafshoppers 3 _ 
That extendeth the heavens as a thin veil, 
And fpreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. 
Well might “it be afked, after this, as 
in the 25th verfe— 
To whom then will ye liken me; 
And to whom ‘hall I be equalled, faith the 
Holy One. 
And thus fhould every mortal man 
confider of the moft high God. 
For thus faith Jehovah, the high and the lofty, 
Inhabiting eternity, and whofe name is the 
Holy One: 
The high and the holy place will I inhabit. 
And with the contrite and humble of fpirity 
To revive the fpirit of the humble, 
And to give life to the heart of the contrite. , 
[saran, lv. 15. 
Fue 13. PHILOBIBLOS, 
a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
PROM your correfpondent C. ‘No. 
XIV, p. 98) faying that ‘ objeétions 
to the ufe of the blood of horned cattle, 
as food, can only arife from abfurd pre- 
judice,” Iam Jed to fuppofe that it may 
be matter of information to a part of your 
readers to know, that there are diftricts 
in this country, where #baf prejudice, 
at leaft, is not entertained by the inha- 
bitants; and by fome, perhaps, it may 
be-confidered_as peculiarly applicable at 
the prefent junéture, to recommend to 
the attention of our provifional cavalry 
and volunteer guardians of our, lives and 
fortunes, 
sé 
oe 

Black puddings, proper food 
For warriors who delight in blood,”” 
Till Lread your correfpondent’s letter, 
I did not imagine that a difh held in fuch 
eftimation by our anceftors, in the days of 
Butler, was entirely unknown, at prefent, 
in any part of theifland; but if fuch isthe 
cafe, J am doubtful of gaining credit 
when I venture to inform you, that the 
blood of horned cattle is not only eaten 
when flaughtered, but procured, as an 
article of food, from the /vimg animal, 
both in Scotland and the north of Eng- 
land. For the Abyffinians have gone 
only one ftep farther, and the narrator of 
the fac has been held up to ridicule. 
But Mr. Bruce, probably, from being a 
mative of a country where it was com- 
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