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fential tothe defence of the general an- 
tiquity of the record. It may, without 
violence to probability, be furmited 
(Aftruc, Conjeftures fur les Memoires 
originaux dont il paroit que Moyfe s’eft 
fervi) that the account of the fall was 
contained in one document, the account 
of the deluge, and the lives of the pairi- 
archs, in others. 
Now it is apparent that the lives of the 
patriarchs are eftimated by the more an- 
cient years, the lunar years of the Zgyp- 
tians ; fince, upon this fuppofition, their 
length of life agrees with the experieace 
of ages, as tothe ufual and probable du- 
ration of human life in the regions which 
they inhabited. But, in the account of 
the deluge, the year of twelve months, 
the more modern year, has been made 
ufe of for computation. 
Gught we not, then, to infer, that the 
document including this account, is che 
More modern of. the two, having been 
compofed fubfequently to the time of 
Wabonaflar; and that the more ancient 
document was as 
prior to this epocha, haying really pre- 
ceded the birth of Chrift by more than 
747 years ? 5 
If, with Cenforinus, we attribute to 
the Agyptians the temporary ufe of a 
four-month year, intervening between the 
rejection of the lunar, and the adoption, of 
the folar year, the older document will 
thence acquire an antiquity yet more 
aucuft, 

To the Editor of the Montbly Magazine. 
STR, Piece 
(pee following anfwer tothe Query, 
p- 264, 1s fubmitted to the propoler, 
by your's, Nee oe 
As the objeét’of all manufaétures is, 
by certain operations, founded on known 
principles, to exhibit materials in a dif- 
ferent form or flate from that in which 
they before appeared ; every applica- 
tion of thefe principles, by which a zew 
eycé? is produced, trom the fame mate- 
rials being exhibited in a different form, 
or by a fimilar article ‘being produced 
from new materials, muft be a “ new 
manufaéture,’’ and, confequently, the 
term includes all new applications, and 
therefore all poffitle applications of thefe 
principles; otherwife it can have no 
meaning ; the mechanic principles, and | 
‘the natural properties of bodies being 
invariable. 
Term © New Manufaftures” ... Pimples. 
certainly compofed _ 
687, 
Io the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
PERMIT me, through the channel of 
your uteful Publication, to communi- 
cate acircumitance which eccurred in fe- 
veral young people of my acquaintance 
this fummer. A imall pimple arofe on 
the fkin, in'various parts, which in two 
or three days appeared with a very mi- 
nute red point, juft like an. extremely 
finall drop of blood, from* the punéture 
of avery fine fharp needle; in a. thoct 
time a {mall red infect could be drawn 
out of the pimple, which being placed on 
paper, thowed evident figns or life. 
L could with to be informed by fome 
of your ingenious correfpondents, whe- 
ther this affection is arranged by nofo- 
logifis in any of their claffes of difeafes, 
and what name naturalifs have given te 
the miect which caufes this appearance ? 
Daim, cies es ‘ 
Your conftant reader, 
Sept. 15, 1790, 5. 
re 
Io the Editor of the Monthly Magazines’ 

AMR | 
A LOW me to fay a few words im 
an{wer to the obfervations made by 
your correfpondent B. in the Magazine 
for lafi month, upon fome parts of what 
I had faid in the preceding Number, 
with refpeét to the Stiuéture of the 
Welth language. 
In the firft place, he confiders that: 
‘* Sanconiathon, Manetho, and Berolus, 
attord but bad premifes'on which to ereét 
a demonitration; and that there is no 
validity in the foundation of Mr. Bryant’s 
fyitem, becaufe the explanations given 
by him of the Ammoniat particles are 
conjectural, and thofe conje¢iures proved 
to be totally unfounded.”’ i 
For my part, I imagine that more 
certain ule could be made of the Aznts 
contained in the fragments preferved 
from thofe ancient authors before men- 
tioned, either with regard to the appel- 
lations of particular perfonages, or in allu- 
fion to their rites and myfteries, than of 
any thing faid upon the fame fubjeét by 
writers in fubfequent times, when thofe 
allegories and emblems, that were fimple 
in their origin, were become an accumu. 
lation of inexplicable fables. . 
Suppofing every thing advanced with 
re{pect to the Ammonian language, to be 
nothing more than conjecture, it muft 
have been a happy one, that fo many 
coincidences can be brought from’ the 
oricmtal 
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