#90 
than I. And, on this occafion, the poe 
mames himfelf (c. xxviii. v. 3.) Daniel. 
it is worthy ef remark, that thefe poems 
minutely agree in character with the later 
oracles* aferibed to Ifaiah, and with tke 
xlvith to lift chapters of Jeremiah. 
Thoworvth xi iith,and xxxixth chap- 

* << Woiah flourifhed under Uzziah one year, 
under Jotham 16 years, under Ahaz 16 years, 
and under Hezelciah about 14-years; to which 
af we add 25 years, Before which age he 
would fcarcely have aflumed the prophetic of- 
Gite, we may fuppafe him fo have lived about 
72 years. Of the many oracles, afcribed to 
him, the firft nine chapters allude to perfons 
of hisown zra, and to events within his ob- 
fervation; they hive the common chara&ter 
_— £ £y 4 a as ~~ 
cf the ee) of his country about that time 5 
they are fuch as might be expected from the 
ion of che grazier at Tekoa, and may fafely 
be confidered as written by him. 
f¢ With the tenth ckapter of the work 
easing bis aame, begins poetry of a ‘much 
Righer order, the produGion of a mind more 
refined by culture: the ideas take a more 
compreh enfive range: in geography, in hif- 
tory, the poet is more learned: with Babylon 
and its wicinity, he'feems familiar; with 
yrus, and every minute particular of the 
memo rable fieze, he is cor reétly acquainted ; 
the arts of canotiian he is an acre his 
fle paces with the meafured ftep of grace 5 
Ris wide genius is equal to the boldeft foar, 
and deems fa forefeel the immortality to 
which it was born. Now it is certain, that the 
avth andkvith See of thefe oracles, are 
mot the work of Ifaiah. They allude to the 
f Moab, and were written (xvi. 14.) 
ee three years of its deAtru@ion. But 
ifoab was overthrown ieee Ant. x. 9.) 
asout five years after-the taking of f Jerufalem 
Sy Nebuchadrezzar, or his fervants, and a 
lows century alter the death of Liaiah. 
«* Jtremains, then, to confder thefe and 
ali the fubsequent chapters, 43 an antholog Y5 
by warious uncertain hands 5 er from the iden- 
ity of chara€ter {and that of no common nor 
imitable kind} which pervades them, to-af- 
<rjbe them to fome one later author. 
refource be preferred, as in reafon it ought, 
zt might be contended, that the work af- 
cxibed to Daniel, cannot. be his (Collins 
Scheme of Literal Propbecyy p. 149, &c.) but 
is @ Bie lor writing, probably as late as An- 
ticchus Epiphanes: that the exiftence of this 
legend, ao lefs than the cer ony of Eze- 
kiel, isa proof of the high traditional repu- 
tation of Daniel, which muft have ‘*d fome 
causes that the compofition of theie poems 
isa probalte caufe; and that the trains of 
“idea ‘prevailing in them, are fuch as his 
- time, his place, his circumflances, would pe- 
culiarly tend to fuggeit: and, confequently, 
& 
that the name of Daniel fhould once again be 
- pritised2”~ Ldcathiy Revicw, | wol. XXII. 
P- 491s me 
Tf this | 
gians spas hs hs by 
Author of Ezekiel... Mr. Heufman’s Tour. 
ters of Ezekiel, have alfo the appearance | 
of official war- -fongs. The two latter.evi-- 
dently relate to an expedition againit, at 
Scythians. Some hefitation will be fe 
in afcribing the feries of five chapters 
uninterr uptedly to Daniel; as the xxxviith - 
chapter. is much.in the ftile of Ezekiel. 
Now it is not at all improbable, that 
the celebrated Daniel was a fort of poet. 
laureat to Nebu.* Khadrezar; that he 
attended his expeditions, and compofed 
fongs of triumph or regret over the thift- 
ing “fcenery 0 of his enterprizes. Daniel, . 
and the other hoftages felected on the firft - 
reduction of Jerulalem, appear to have 
imbibed, in the Chaldean {chools, a 
fteady alliance to the court of Babylon; 
for he is defcribed, by his legendary 
brocrapher (Daniel i ii, 48.), asin high 
fayour with his { fovereign, 
Eriafmuch as thefe obfervations have 
weight, they tend te autherize the fegre- 
gation of a very fine fet of oracles from 
_thofe of Haiah, Jeremiah, ‘and Ezekiels 
and the afcription of them to Daniel. 
TOUR OF ENGLAND, 
(CONTINUED). 
Journ! of a Tour through almoft ey erycounty 
in England, and part of Wales, byMr.Joun 
Hise hee of Corby, near Carlifle ; who 
was enieasee tomake the Tour by a gentle- 
man of * diftinétion, for the purpofe oF col- 
je€ting authentic information relative to 
theiftate of the poer. The Journal com- 
prifes an account of the general appearance 
ofthe country, of the foil, furface,. build- 
ings, &c. with Uhianeanege sericea 
commercial, &c. 
eee ee is Pia for 
its fine breed of cattle and fheep. 
Thefe. animals have lately been mproved 
to a .great degree of periegtion by fome 
{pirited farmers in the north of that 
county ; among whom «the late Mr. 
Batanel of Difhley, was» the leader. 
kat gentleman feleGted the bef »ewes 
fromasihinieale nfhire, and cows from Lan- 
cathire ; he contimued to breed from: the 
fame ftock, ftill picking the fineit boned, 
beft fhaped, and duch of the animals’as 

* Nebu is palibly the Perfian mayb, a mere 
title occurring alfo in the mames Nabonafiar, 
Nabopolaffar, Nebuzar adan, ScCy, Khacrezar 
feems to be the mode of writing, in Babylon 
letters, the old Aramic word for Khojfrav,, 
Khoiroes, or Cyrus, which the modern Sy- 
Cezra(D Anviile’s LD’ Ex- 
porate & le Ti grey Be, 124.) .The-orthegra-- 
phy. of jereralab and Ezekiel is, therefore, 
preferable to that of Kings anid Chronicles, 
which read} Nt chesdueaient ; 
