En, or Ain, indicating fountains, may 
poffibly have given origin to the name of 
Nefibis 5 ; but it is far more probable fome 
aa ferted place contiguous to the dry ra- 
vie. yet called after it Sebas. Havila 
was, nodoubt, fituate in the province, 
and on the river of the fame name, oy 
fhould be fone ht nearer to its mouth tha 
‘to its head, ufe the names. ef rivers 
commonly a being fir impofed 
where they are mott confiderable. ‘The 
name of Raamah may with faint proba- 
bility be imagined in Aar aban, between 
Reln and “Thallaba.. If thefe indica- 
‘tions be put together. it will follow tha 
‘the land of Cuhh nearly anfwered to the 
modern province of Diarrabia, fince it 
contained five of the cities therein fituate: 
in a word, that it was the diftrict com- 
prehended between the Tigris and the 
eCharboras ; and confequently that the 
Chaboras is the Ghion which bounded 
the land of Cush. ; 
‘The four rivers of Paradife appear then 
to have been the Euphrates, the Chabo- 
ras, the Mygdonius, and the Tigris. 
-It is firange, that the garden of Eden 
fhould not oftener be mentioned by the 
early writers of the Jews. -Except in an 
andecifive paflage of Deuteronomy, a book 
which feems to have been written durin 
the captivity, (XXIX. 28 3) under Hofhea, 
no allufions to it occur, until about-the 
period of the Baby lonian conqueft. Was 
the account at that time new to Jewifh li- 
terature ? 
3 ee Ee 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Wapeede. 
SER:, 
AM much ey and much obliged, 
by the account Mrs. CATHARINE 
Capps has given in your Magazine forNo- 
‘wember, of the fuccefs that has attended a 
female benefit club; andI think thofe who 
founded or promoted fuch an inftitution, 
ave entitled to public regard. Ibeg leave, 
through your Magazine, to threw out a_ 
hint or two, which, I humbly apprehend, 
might be improvements upon theie excel- 
lent inftitutions. 
fhould recommend, that in fuch focieties, 
on any female marrying, a imali fum or 
fixpence per quarter, or whatever fum 
may be thought adequate, fhall be paid, 
‘in addition to the former fableription, in, 
order to raife a fund for allowing mar- 
ried women fomething in child- bed ; 3 fup- 
pole, ten thillings and fixpence for the 
-month, and in café they are not fully re- 
-covered, two fhillings per week during 
-the remainder of their illnefs, unlefs fuch 
fubfequent iilnefs is among tt the number 
proyidec for by the rules, 
Benefit Societies....Prevention of Bank Forgery. 
In the firft place, I. 
[Jan, 
I further beg leave to hint, that I think 
the reduction of the allowance to one fhil- 
ling per week, if a member lies fick more 
than fix months, feems withdrawing the 
aid when moft So! as it is probablé 
the allowance of four fhill: lings per v week 
willnot frequently fupport a fick perfon, 
and pay all expences of medicine and at- 
tendance ; a it the extra expence is to 
be paid ont of the neceffaries of the fick 
perfon, is there not reafon to fear fuch per- 
fon may be left to great want, and one 
grand defi ign of fach TA EEO loft, viz. 
a fupport in old age or inability to labour. 
~--Several inflances have lately been men- 
tioned in the papers of different Friendly 
Societies fupporting fome of the aged and 
infirm members for feveral years.---But, 
although [ take the’ liberty to give thefe 
hints, "Edo it with fome degree of diffi- 
dence and great deference to thofe refpe&- 
able characters who have imftituted and- 
promot ted the Societies in queftion, w hy 
havi ing made obfervations upon their ef- 
feéts, will better judge of the propriety of 
{uch regulation tha me can do. 
I beg leave to obferve. further, in addi- 
tion to the hint I gave in your Magazine 
for September, that acomplete trial of one 
of thetfe focieties could not be made in lef 
than forty years, that my calculation went 
upon the ground of the allowance not be- 
ing leffened in fo great a proportion to a 
member, who might lie a long time fick, 
as is the cafe*in the Berwick Society ; ; ne- 
verthelefs, IT am ftill of opinion, that no 
fociety of the kind can have had a fair trial 
in lefs time, as.) many years muft elapfe, 
after fach an inftitution is formed, pions 
it can have any old members belonging to 
it, therefore not fubject to thofe expences 
which fall moft heavy on the funds of the 
fociety. Tam, Sir, yourhumble fervant, 
J. K, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, . 
‘Correfpondent of your’s, who fub- 
fer ibgs himielf <* 4 Sufferer by For- 
gery,” has exprefled a with to be informed, 
whether the DireCtorg of the Bank ae 
Epelead) have refuied a plan for prevent- 
ing the forgery of Bank notes ; “ a plan 
which would not only have ren dered forge- 
ry more difficult than at prefent, but ‘al- 
mo, if not altogether ineole sle, and of 
which the excelle ency was attefted by all 

_the > principal artifts in London ?7? 
From the manner in which thequeftion 
is put, I am led to fuppofe (though I 
cannot be certain) that your correfpondent 
has heard jomething retpecting the plan 
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