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      6 f | barter is abolished , even in the tiine of Abraham , and silver is used as the medium of exchange * not however in the way of coin , but by weight , ( xxiii . 16 . ) It is

      probable , indeed , that at the time of Jacob , the Phenicians were in possession of coined money . ( xxxiii . 19 ) * ' In the forty-four first chap * ters of Genesis * there is n © t a trace

      of horses ; on Jacob ' s journey to ? gyp *> Egyptian horses are for the first time made use of * Now history teaches us that Palestine , in its earlier periods , had no horses , but that Egypt always had them .

      " Lastly , in forming leagues , the Patriarchs do not proceed , a * izi later times , but as other nations of the earjiest antiquity formed them . In Homer , treaties are

      made by word of mouth , and in ordc ^ r to make them more than usually binding , they are concluded under the invocation , and guarantee of Heaven , and are besides accompanied by various tokens and presents * In like man .

      Hgr * Abraham separates seven sheejp as a present to A bi me lech as tqftens of the laying aside the strife about the disputed well , and of , renewed friendshi p * ( xxw 27 •) So Jacob and Laban threw up h ^ aps of stQnes , as a ip ^ morial of their reconciliation : and the name

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      present when it was concluded by word of mouth . " Further ^ the change which i » observable in the Mosaic records , immediately after the Deluge , is quite agreeable to the course of

      human things Before that event , Asia was , probably , in some respects farther advanced than at the time of Abraham * Before the Deluge , we already meet with the u » e of iron , but for a long period afterwards no trace of it : and

      many arts whieia were cultivated before the Deiage , fall into forgetfulness after it , and must at a much later period be again invented . In short , Asia , instead of

      rising , suffers a decline * And was it possible that it should have happened otherwise ? A single family survives the flood , and re . peop le * the depopulated Asia . How could all the arts of Asia survive the

      flood , along with these few persons ? Were they acquainted with them all ? Or i { they were , could they all come into Qxercise amongst them after the flood ? The cares

      necessary for their subsistence which would at first entirely occupy them , required nothing more than the employment of the

      commonest arts ; and the pursuit of the means of satisfying their neces si ties wpujd prevent the exercise of any , art of luxury , . The situation then of the world after the

      Deluge occa ^ iPJDed many of the arts of the antediluvian world to remain unexercised , and to perish , requiring , to ^ agai n invented at

      an alter , period , by fortunate ^ c » cideiHs , an $ , at different occasions . In QWjgpqii& 9 memkmd , must necea-^ % AfV ^ * WriW 9 / tttto ' Ae&& 9 a 944 if r ^ ppses , h ^ d ^ mad e tb ^ m ad-

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1812, page 361, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1749/page/17/