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paffed over the fea Erytri, upon the angel 
Zetiel, and came into the gardens of 
righteoufnefs, where are all goodly trees, 
tall, thadowy, fruitful, and {weet of fimell : 
and I faw there the tree of knowledge, of 
which whofo eateth knoweth very many 
things. The tree is like untoa tamarind*, 
and its fruit like the fruit of the vine, 
and its fragrance wanders far, and endures 
long. And I called out aloud faying: 
O fair tree, how rejoicing is the fight of 
thee! Then the angel Rafael, who was 
with me, anfwered, faying: This is the 
tree of which thy forefather and mother 
ate; and their eyes were opened ; and they 
knew that they were naked, and were dri- 
ven out of the garden.” 
It is defirable that a complete tranfla- 
tion of this book of Enoch may fhortly be 
given to Europe. Confidered merely asa 
legend of Jewifh mythology, it is, for po. 
etical magnificence and originality, very 
interefting : and it cannot but illuftrate 
alfo. the hiftorical progrefs of. opinion. 
The book of Enoch probably exifted when 
the Ecclefiafticus of the fon of Sirach was 
firfl compiled ; becaufe Enoch is there no- 
ticed (XLIV. 16.) as inforcing repentance 
to all generations, which agrees with the 
character of the legend, and not with that 
of Genefis (V. 21—24): .it exifted there- 
fore before the Macedonian conqueft 
(MMX. p. 223.) of Paleftine and Perfia. 
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Ta the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HAVE juft feen Mr. Dyer’s objections 
to my conjefture on Greek pronuncia- 
tion, inferted in your Magazine for No- 
vember ; and 1 was by no means furprifed 
to fee them ; for I had not expected that 
the idea would be univerfally relifhed 
while the claffical {cholars of this ifland 
continue divided between the mode of 
reading by acceut, as it is called, and that of 
reading by quantity. So long as the for- 
mer practice fublifts, objections will of 
courfe be raifed againft every thing which 
has a tendency to infringe the eftablithed 
rules of accent. 
But let us examine Mr. Dyer’s argu- 
ment. The fubftance of it is this— 
Becaufe the article and the prepofition 
are often disjoined from the noun, it is 
wrong to fuppofe that they ought ever to 
be united with it: 
* Arbor illa fimilis cf fabe grace, fays the 
Latin verfion; but the Afthiopic ward cor- 
tefpond, adds De Sacy, with that employed 
in the Aithiopi¢ verfion of Luke KY, 16. 
Mr. Carey.in Reply to Mr. Dyer. 
22 
But Mr. Carey fuppofes, that, in cer- 
tain cafes, the article or prepofition was 
combined in pronunciation with the noun, 
making with it, as it were, only a fingle 
word : 
~ Ergo, Mr. Carey is miftaken. 
Let us now fee how the fame kind of 
logic will apply in a cafe, if not exaétly pa- 
railel, at leait not very diffimilar— 
Becaufe, in the cafe of compound verbs, 
the prepofition is often found {eparate from 
the verb, as waraexraic, xaraeCure, Secs 
it is wrong to fuppofe that they could ever 
be joined into a fingle compound word : 
But Homer has frequently joined them, 
and written xavrexrave, xareCncay, &c. Nay, 
he has united them fill more intimately by 
Writing xauraye, uaCCare, xammrece, 8c. and 
has even gone beyond Mr, Carey’s affer. 
tion by fyncopating and combining ia the 
fame manner the prepofition with the noun 
which it governs, as avmedov, anCwrroirt, 
KanKEharny, KaKKopUdnY, KOMEDI, Se, 
Ergo, Homer was an ignorant a{s, who 
knew no more of Greek accent or pronun= 
ciation than a Cherokee Indian or a Kal]- 
muc Tartar!!! 
This, I truft, will hardly be deemed an 
overftraining of Mr. Dyer’s argument, 
but an inference fairly deducible from his 
mode of reafoning. ‘The truth is, that 
the fubjec& in queftion is one upon which I 
conceive it would be very difficult for ei 
ther him or me to prove any thing perfect- 
ly conclufive on either fide : and my only 
intention in ftarting the conjecture was ta 
throw out a hint which might ata future 
day be advantageoufly purfued by fome 
more able philologift than either of us. 
Meantime, however, if we look to 
other languages, the idea of pronouncing 
£x Sahamov asa fisgle word, with an altera- 
tion of accent, will not appear fo very 
unreafonable as Mi. Dyer fuppofes. In 
Latin, for inftance, do we not find de 2ow?, 
in loco, pronounced as fingle words, denuo; 
tllico? and does not Quintilian (as I have 
elfewhere obferved)clearlyinformus thatczr- 
cum litera, inZEneid iv, 254, was pronounc- 
ed as a fingle word? In modern languages 
too—But, if Mr. Dyer fhould condemn: 
the notion of an appeal to any modern lan- 
guageon this occafion, I can, in fupport of 
it; quote the authority of an eminent claffi- 
cal {cholar—a profeffor in one of our nai- 
verfities, and well acquainted with a variety 
of modern languages—whofe name I fhould 
be proud to mention, if I thought I coulddo 
it without a violation of delicacy. Thit 
gentleman, alluding to the ufe I-had made 
of the Italfan.and French and Portuguefe 
pronunciation imelucidatiny certain points 
of 
