1798.] 
teriftic title of the Supreme Being under 
the Mofaic difpenfation ; fo we find the 
“title God Almighty is thus diftinguifhingly 
ufed by the Deity himfelf in {peaking to 
Abraham and Jacob; and is likewife ap- 
plied by them, by I{aac, and by others in 
fubfequent ages to the fame purpotes. The 
Molt High himielf took this diftin&tive 
title when {peaking to Abraham. Gen. 
XVU.r.19. It is ufed as fuch by Taac, 
Gen. xxviii. 3, 4. xvii.21. The Supreme 
- Being alfo took it when addrefling Jacob, 
Gen. xxxv. 1—15. It is ufed of the 
Deity as appropriate to the Abrahamic 
difpenfation, Gen. xliii. 14. 23. xliv. 16, 
17. xlv. 5—g. xlvi. 2, 3. xlviii. 3+ 9. 
Di. LGA eee 25; Exod. iis6, 
il, 23—25. The Mott High commands 
Moles to tell the Ifvaclites that Fehowah 
is the fame being who appeared as God to 
their fathers, Exod. iii. 15, i6. iv. 5. 
Allufions are made to this in many parts 
of the Old Teftament, Pfalms xx. 1. 5. 
7. Xlvi. Zeega. Xlviie 9. 
The interpretation, then, which has 
been given above of the text in Exod. vi. 
3, is agreeable to the ufe of the words in 
- other paflages of the Old Teftament, and 
to their proper meaning in this; it ac~ 
cords with the purport of the fentence in 
which they are introduced, and with the 
“conteXt ; it agrees-with a paflage in Exo- 
dus, to which it evidently refers, that re- 
cords the divine origin of the diftinGtive 
appropriation of the name Fehovah; it 
reconciles ‘every apparetit contradiétion 
between this paflage and the hittory in 
Genefis; and it correfponds with the 
whole hiftory of the Old Teftament. 
It is not irrelevant to notice here, that 
the fame Hebrew verb yy); which we 
have been attending to, and which is like- 
wiie tranilated, fo snow, in Deut. Vili. 3. 
mutt fignity, to confider. In this text it 
appears, alfo, as aireétly to contradiét 
fome parts of the hiftory, as the paflage 
we have been explaining. It feemed pro- 
_ per to mention this fignification, as the 
title Fehovah was appointed to be ame- 
morial to a]l generations, and therefore to 
be confidered and attended to as fuch. 
‘The fame verb muft likewife mean, 70 
confider. Prov. ix. 18. Hofea ii. 8. 
Nehemiah ix. 13, 14. It is ‘ufed as fy - 
honymous with confider. Laiah i. 3. 
Bath, Now. 24th, 1798. J. SIMPSON. 
. SSS 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
' SiR, 
A‘ article in your Magazine for Oc- 
XX tober refpecting the properties of 
fea-weed thrown up by the tide along the 
MonrTHLy Mac. No. xxxix, 
Ufe of Sea-weed in Guernfey and Fer/ey, 
421 
fea-coaft, induces me to communicate the 
following particulars, which, although 
they may not be quite accurate, may be 
the means of inducing others to give a 
more perfeét account of the fame. It is 
a well-known fact that the iflands of Jer- 
fey and Guerntey produce no ‘wood for 
fuel, every part being turned to better 
account. ‘Ihe inhabitants who would, 
but for the following expedient, be en- 
tirely dependant for a fupply from Eng- 
land, have framed laws for regulating 
the gathering fea-weed for that purpole. 
On fome particular day in the year, as 
foon as the clock {trikes (twelve or one), 
all the peafantry and lower claffes, men, 
women, and children, repair to the fea- 
fide with carts, hories, nay, even wheel- 
barrows and bafkets, and {trip from the 
rocks the fea-weed growing on them, 
which they bring home and dry with great 
attention and care ; and which, when per- 
fectly dry, they make into ftacks, and cut 
it out in cakes to burn on the hearth. The 
athes aremade ufe of as manure, probably 
unmixed with any thing elfe, for their 
grafts lands. Thefe athes are preferved in 
a thed or {tore for the purpofe. The fea- 
weed harveft continues feveral days, when 
each perfon gets as much as he is able; 
and as foon as any perion gains poffeffion 
of arock, all the weed growing thereon 
is his own property, which is not often 
difputed. After the number of: days pre- 
{cribed are expired, no perfon dares to 
gather any more until the return of the 
proper feafon, There is a fort of Straw- 
berry cultivated at Jerfey, which is almot 
covered with fea-weed in the winter, in 
like manner as many plants in England 
are with litter from the ftable. Thefe 
ftrawberries are ufually of the largenefs 
of a middle fized apricot, and the flavor 
is particularly grateful. In Jerfey and 
Guernley, fituate fearcely one degree far- 
ther fouth than Cornwall, all kinds of 
fruit, pulfe, and vegetables are produced in 
their feafons a fortnight or three weeks 
fooner than in ‘England, even on the 
fouthern fhores; and: fnow will (carcely 
remain 24. hours on the earth. Although 
this may be attributed to thefe iflands 
being furrounded with a falt and .confe- 
quently moilt atmofphere, yet the athes 
made ufe of as manure may alfo have 
their portion of influence, and refit the 
congealing properties of freft. In thofe 
countries where the lands are covered with 
a burning torrent of lava, which lays every 
thing wafte, that lava, when decompofed, 
after atime forms a cruit of earth on its 
furtace, and the plants and fruits pro- 
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