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1900.J ‘Dr. Elager’s Dateéiisn of the Forgery of the Buks of Livgi 133 
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publithed, the dates ere marked with thafe 
numerical figures, which the modern Arabs 
make ufe of; ar kat, fuch figns have 
never Gcen feen yet on thei comms before 
ap inna SE AMT Se REPS SP 
Aury- He infested Jetters of the P 
who, not to mention other ifeft anci- 
cations. of fo > Were fo write in 
Italian, akhough this idiom had ncvyer 
pap Ea sy yagi a of fach 
_an easly date. It 1s. imdced an uncouth 
Italian medley, patched up of Latin anc 
* Sicilian words; yet he not only made 
them addrefs it to Arabian princes, bar 
‘write it with Arabic charafters (raat is, 
fuch as he had bimieli invented), m order, 
petnaps, to preveat the Arabs ase 
derfanding, the contents: as if it ware 
not fufficicntly ksown, that ay ~-s 
canfed their letters generally to be 
writtes in Latin; OF even, if occalon re- 
wired, im. fome oriental Ianguage. His 
Gyleis exceffively languid and tedious, to- 
tally unlike that of 2 lively ipisited peo- 
:.beides, there prevails tnrowch the 
whole of Bis work an unaccountable uni- 
formity, infomuch, that Mahomedans and 
Carifiians, Empecors and Popes, Arz- 
bians, Grecks, and Italians, zl] expre/s 
themieives m .the fame duli monotony. 
Not Se irEaeie Sees of the mummers, 
“5, 2Zcimals, and infiitations, then 
in Steily, becanfe they Peat 
exifad; fo thar the Abbate’s macin 
flea, wncmniched with the knowlaize o 
the biftery and antiquities of oes 
_4w3s incapable of fupp!ying this deiiciency. 
Et was referved for 2 German to uoveil 
the ipedtre which had hunted Sicily, and 5 
Gcluded the whole zepublic of letters in 
Europe. Dofter Hacer, bor of Aufirian 
er at Milan, fatisfed nimif, durme 
is refalence at Palermo m Mey 1764, 

* i thail fabjoim another example comma- 
nicated to me by Ds. Hager Ie the mop oF 
Sicily annexed to the GS voleme of the G- 
62 Cg ti Palx, deGzcus of diiplay- 
«ime his profoead f&cholafbip, rendexei_ che 
mame of 2 town 2iready Arabic. by ascther 
@erived from the fame teesee. Coieeefea is 
2 lrge place im the weitere part & Skilr: 
” eide chist, c= any chart of the ted 
~ Jt was orteimally the caftie (Aras. Ecler} of 
' the Grecia bemizs, whe br Vella is de- 
BemingtedHes ime 204 whe ts fad t6 Rave Grit 
Giiled the Arthians rato Sicily The learsec 
Geographer t2king-this 2me to be 2c sbritc- 
ment ef the Itclzam words = cies de jam 
tbe deiceat-of women, tranflated it | Sally. 
“im the Arabic patois of Malta ; by 2raaiz 
Mage. _{BseSer.) 
\Monstretry Mac. No. 5¢ 
i 
that what was given to the world ander 
the mame of the Martintan Code, could be 
BO genume prodpciion- On his rectum, 
when the packet on board of which, he 
took his pafiage, happened to be becalmed 
for a whole week together, he drew up 2 
paper, contzining tbe mo cogent argu- 
Mchits refpecima tus fubjes, 2nd bayvme 
addrefled 15 to the King of Naples > be re- 
ceived a: View, whitner be had reterned, 
a very fc ttering invitation from his Sect- 
lizn Majeity, to repair once more to P2- 
lerme with 2 view of fobjectime the r- 
puted Arabic Oricimals i quefiion to a 
ore accurate examaicticn. In 
Plience with this sequek, be fojourncd 
there from December 17¢¢ to December 
1756 az waica | period ne decided, 
that the whole w2s an impeiure. His 
fay, 23 well 2s his departure, were marked 
with £22 royzi bouaty. “This karned 
ee afters beme entrufed with the 
Cade, had no feoner divefied it of the goli- 
beaters” fkin, than be difcovered the recent 
imfextzoms and disizarations; and iound 
from the tenor of the osicm=! charatters, 
fiat sii pee etemied cade wes no more than 
@ Exfary of Mabamed aad fs farelg- He 
likewle cxzmined che HGitiozs eee aad 
found them ta be cai mfiecd of base 
fruck. OF the counterfert correfpondenc= 
eared on with -perions refdime om the 
caf of A fries, he could nat fee the whoie, 
face, <s has been ated before, difsuifed 
rebbers were fas to have carried if off 5 
Bot Vell2 at ieneth produced fi koyss 
a, oz the supplements, whice were 
aferted to have Been tranimitted from 
Morocco: theie Dr. ae Pet to Se 
Written Epes. Geese paper, iach zs is 
coamsealy foki at =e 
3- #5 an carler pesod Vella iad ca- 
Jon ee eet oped ES ee 
moment, waich was the difcovey or for- 
<s- ot what he Cmomunated ihe Nermaz 
222.” ‘The fabverters of Axyabien fapree 
macy im fhe and of Saly. as we kave 
ebierved chore, comtinucd the Arztie bn- 
Suace = whence the p& made of the latter 
by + the Normans could be ne imbcét of 
ferpnze. Baz pew aE ee ee 
the Iaws of Count Rixizer (Ruczicro) 
and Dsk= Bobert, which occur aa the 
Cade; end of which reither the Emperor 
Préderic, Bor any Sicthas wirrer cn bw 
er bufory, Garing the two === cea- 
tunics, Ezre zk i astice> How fhail 
we be reconciiad to :-be Getement, that 
eceur im 2 cotreipendence beld between 
the Norman Rooect and tae Eeyptas Fa- 
immites ? How is it likely, that fot = 
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