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&e . ) , To Mr . K , it seems the most plausiBJe opinion , that Mosses wrote the book of Job while he was a shepherd in the land e £ Midian , and that the object of the introductory chapters , as indeed of the whole of it / is to prove that events of
every kind have their origin in the decrees and omnipotence of the Supreme Being . He then considers the case of natural and moral evil , on principles which appear to tis at once scriptural and philosophical , and deduces some important inferences from the doctrine of God ' s infinite benevolence , [ To be continued . ]
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ARTICLE III * - , ¦ ^ - * African Memoranda : relative to an Attempt to establish a : British Settlement on the Island of Bulama , on the West ^ em Coast of Africa * in the Year 1792 . With a brief
Notice of the Neighbouring Tribes , Soil , Productions \ Kc . and some Observations on the Facility of colonizing that Part of Africa with a View to Cultivation ^ and the
Introduction of Letters and Heligion to itsjnhabitants ^ but more particularly as the Means of gradually abolishing African Slavery . By Capt . Philip Beaver * 4 to ^ pp , 500 * Bal dwins . iLlls . 6 d . 1805 . [ Continued from page ait . 1
Oar Capt . Beaver ' s return to the Hankey , he found the Calypso had joined her consorts the preceding day . " - The history of this ship , during her separation from the other vessels ^ was melancholy and dispiriting . She had sailed directly for Goree , but not being able to procure sufficient water , o $
refreshments for the crew , had proceeded vip the Bijuga channel , arid had anchored , on the 25 th of May , off the island of Bui am a . Having reached their Iong-wished-for destination , the colonists seem to have given themselves up to idleness and indulgence . No order was observed , no concert prevailed among them . They were a little alarmed , on the 30 th , by the
appearance of a war-canoe reconnoitring near the Calypsb t which they could not bring to approach her ; and those that had been accustomed to sleep on snore returned that night to the ship , leaving their tents standing . The next morning they found that their tents , and all they contained , had been carried off in the night . This disaster , whatever apprehension it excited for jthe moment , failed of arousing them to steady industry , arid
of impelling them into close union . An instructive aftd terrible calamity was at -fcand *
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268 African Memoranda . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 268, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/44/
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