The  mills  had  been  at  work  during  the  week,  keepinff  up  a  head  of
water  which  had  rushed  along  with  a  velocity  (as  Joseraus  describes  it)
sufficient  to  cany  with  it  stones  and  fragments  of  rocks.  On  sabbath^
day  the  miller  "  shut  down,"  and  let  ul  the  water  run  through,  by
wmoh  means  the  river  was  laid  almost  dry.  What  should  hinder,  in
these  days  of  hypothesis,  our  adopting  so  ready  and  tatufoctiOTy  a
solution  f

'  Leo  Africamui,']  What  weights  Leo  AMcanus  meanes  is  doubtfulL
Some  have  been  brought  hither,  that  bemg  fatted,  ooulde  scarcely  caiye
their  tayles  :  though  I  know  not^  why  nature,  that  hung  such  a  weight
behinde,  shoulde  not  enable  the  creaiure  to  drag  itt  after  him  by  the
strength  of  his  backe,  as  the  stag  to  caxye  as  great  weight  on  his  heade
only.—  Wr,

*  rudt.l  Sureljr  the  nic  was  but  one,  like  the  phoemx,  but  revives
not  like  toe  phoenix. — Wr,

The  roc  of  the  Arabiaa  Nights,  ooigectuzed  to  have  originated  in  the
American  condor.
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CHAP.  XTin.]  THX  BPABTiJET  B0T8.
a  thouBand  jean  after  his  death  by  Serfcorius ;  whether  there
were  no  deoeit  in  those  fragments  of  the  ark,  so  common  to
be  seen  in  the  dars  of  Berosus ;  whether  the  pillar  which
JosephuB  beheld  long  ago,  TertuUian  long  after,  and  Bar-
tholomeus  de  Salifi;niaoo  and  Bochardus  long  since,  be  the
same  with  that  of  Lot's  wife ;  whether  tibis  were  the  hand  of
Paul,  or  that  which  is  commonly  shown  the  head  of  Peter ;
if  any  doubt,  I  shall  not  much  dispute  with  their  suspicions.
