3798] Miftatements of Profeffor Robifon deteéted....Site of Paradife. 3 
in your Magazine: and I beg leave, at 
the fame time, to fuggett, that it is my 
intention to publifh the refult of my ex- 
periments and enquiries, {ander the title 
of ** Critical Remarks on the Vexercal Dif- 
eafe,”) together with fuch obfervations 
and cafes as { may be honoured with from 
other practitioners. 
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S09 the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
LATE publication, entitled Proofs 
of a Confpiracy, Ge. by Profeffor 
ROBISON, has excited my great furprize; 
and Lamat alofs to conceive how circum-., 
ftences, long ago buried in oblivion, could, 
without making any farther enquiry, be 
reprefented as ftill exifting, by the author 
ot abook, which tends to ftigmatize fome 
of the moft refpeftable charatters in Ger- 
many. From the beginning of 1799, 
EVERY CONCERN OF THE ILLUMINA- 
TI HAS CEASED, and no Lodge of Free- 
mafons in Germany has, fince that period, 
taken the leaft notice of them. Evident 
proofs of this affertion are to be sound 
among the papers of Mr. Bode, late 
Privy Counfelior at Wear, who-was at 
the head of that Order in this part of 
Germany, and who died in1794. After 
his death, all thofe papers were delivered 
up tothe prefent DuKE of Saxz-GOTHA, 
who, on application, would, doubtlefs, 
permit the infpection of thém. The league 
of Dr. Barth, known to Mr. Robifon 
only from the Aznals of Gieffen, avery ob- 
{cure periodical publication, was a phan- 
tom, which no fooner appeared, than it 
was iaid and deftroyed by Mr. Bode him- 
felf, who printed a pamphlet,- entitled, 
More Remarks than Text, which {oon 
opened the eyes of the public. This 
deague, a poor financial fcheme, was 
planned by a man of more genius than 
principle, but wever carried jpto execu- 
tion. This appears from the papers, 
written during the whole of the tranfac- 
tion, which being bequeathed to me by 
Mr. Bode, are now in my poffeffion, and 
true tranfcripts of them may be obtained 
by any one, who wifhes to receive them. 
Although Iwas not a member of that 
fociety, yet I was intimate with Mr. 
Bode, and prefent at his death ; confe- 
quently I'am enabled to vouch folemnly 
for the truth of the above ; and to 
engage, that any perfon in Great Bri- 
¢ain, who, being alarmed at the erroneous 
ftatements contained in the book before- 
mentioned, may obtain the requifite in- 
formation, by applying to me. ee 
AUGUSTUS BOETTIGER, 
Counfellor of the Upper Confiftory, 
‘and Provoft of the College 
Weimar, in Saxony, of Weimar. 
Fan. §, 1798. 
Cast KN, CS el 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
iD Shae ater in his Geographicad 
Memoir L’ Euphrate & le Tigre, page 
14, has indicated to the caft of Roha, or 
Edeffa, a tract of country, elevated and 
beautiful, which now bears the name of 
Eden. ‘This diftri& lies in the center of 
the lands included between the Tigris and 
the Euphrates. At its foot arifes, on the 
eaftern fide, the river Mygdonius, on which 
are fituate the towns of Nefibis and Sin- 
jar; and on the weftern fide, the river 
Chaboras, onwhich are fituate the towns 
of Refainand Thallaba. Thele two ri- 
vers now unite, and fall into the Eu- 
phrates at Kerkifich ; but neither of thera 
appears to purfue its ancient courfe, the 
Mygdonius having originally flowed, 
amid the dry ravine called Tirtar, which 
meets the Tigris above Hatra; and the 
Chaboras amid the dry ravine called Se-~ 
baa, which meets the Euphrates below 
Ofara. . 
What forbids our fuppofing this Eder 
to bave been in the contemplation of the 
author of the fecond chapter of Genefis ? 
Dr. GEDDES, inhisnote on the paflage 
(IZ. 24,) admits, that by Hiddekel is 
meant the Tigris, and by Perath the Eu- 
phrates: with the other two rivers only 
he is embarraffed, and at length fixes on 
the Araxes and the Oxus, which travel to 
the Cafpian and Euxine feas. 
The Phifon, however, is faid to bound 
the land of Havila, where there is gold. 
Now, a-confiderable ftretch of the Myg- 
donius is yet called Al Havali, and thus 
retains obvious traces of the name and 
contiguity of that province, which may 
well have extended as far fouth as the 
mouth of the Zab, a ftream celevrated 
for its gold. 
Of the name Gihon, no traces are ing 
deed to be detested along the banks of the 
Chaboras ; but this river is faid to have 
bounded the land of Cufh. Now, the land 
of Cufh (Genefis X. 7,) comprehended 
the five fubdivifions or townfhips of Seba, 
Havilah, Sabtha, Raamah, and Sabthe- 
chah. Safa and Zabdicena, (or Gezirat} 
on the weftern bank of the Tigris, appear 
evidently to preferve the names of Sabthah 
and Sabthechah. Seba, with the pares 
wis 
