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a half of persons followed the Jewish legislature into Palestine . [ Micbaelis om the Laws of . Xfqses ,.- Vpl ^ J . p ; 99 , Smith ' s translation . . , €€ The men , able to bear arms , somewhat exceeded 60 & 0 OCV and , ^ including the Levltes * amounted to nearly 620 , 00 Q , Jf ,
according to the usuaV principle of calculatlbn , we admit the whole people , women and children included , to have been four jtirnes as . many , we shall then have nearly 2 , 500 * 000 souls for the amount of the population . ' - ' TlSjich- ' aelis proceeds to shew * that within
the limits of Palestine , hereditary possessions and support were found for these , very great numbers . ] The enumeration of the people of Israel in the time of David , if we take the lowest calculation , amounts , including women and children , to Jive millions * butthat census embraces an extensive district .
Tfie remarks of dosephus and Tacitus respecting the fertility of parts of this country , are confirmed by the observations of a native who examined it in the thirteenth century , and by the accounts of more recent travellers . £ " The country about Jerusalem , ' says Abulfeda , the native referred to , ** is < me of the most fruitful in
Palestine . Strabo ( p . 16 ) informs us , 4 that it was unfruitful . " Yet these two writers are easily reconciled . The latter alludes to the soil not being productive of grain y the former to its
great produce in wine and oil . * ' An acre planted with vines or olives , however arid or rocky the soil may be , will very easily be made worth ten times as much as an acre of the
richest corn land / Michaelis , III . 1 S 8 . J T ? he wealth and populousness of Syria , as well as . of Asia , seemfc to have been considerable under the Christian emperors of Constantinople *
if we may judge from the number of archbishoprics , bishoprics , convents and churches which they contained * The religious faith of the actual possessors of Palestine , has caused an alteration in one branch of rural
industry $ the prohibitioaof wine , which has now prevailed fbr ten centuries , has been sufficient ; to-make a great difference between the former and present state of a country admirabl y adapted by nature to the growth of the grape . JM ^ to JEutr ropeatK and Ariathr Turkey \ j edited
from Manuscript Journals , hy Robert Walpole , Mf-Ai 4 tb . l $ 17 , ppJ 11 , ¦ ! & _ I .
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No . CCCXXXVL A Sanguine Author : - A ^ poor vicar , in a very remote province , had , on some popular occa- ;
sion , preached a , sermon so exceedingly acceptably to his pamh |^ i < ers , that they entreated him to prlnjt ilv which , aft ^ r due apd solemn deiiberatiori , he promised to do . This was the most remarkable incident of his
life , and filled his mind w \ th a ^ thousand fancies . The conclusion , hpwever , of all his consultations witil liimself was , ; that he should pbtam both fame and money , - and that & journey to the m ^ trotaolis , ta ; dir € ^ t
and superintend the great ^ opcerji / w ^ Sf indispensable . After taking a formal leave of his friends and neighbours , he proceeded on his journey . On his arrival in town , by great good fortune he was recommended to the
worthy and excellent Mr , Bawyer , to whom he triumphantly related the object of his journey .. The printer agreed to his proposals , and required to know how many copies he would choose to have struck off . "Why ;
bir , ' returned the clergyman , ^ I have calculated that there are in the king ^ dom so many thousand parishes , and that each parish will at least take one ,
and others more ; so that I think , we may venture to print about thirtyfive or thirty-six thousand copies . ' * The printer bowed , the matter was settled * aad the Reverend author
departed in high spirits to his home f With much difficulty a , nd great selfdenial , a period of about two months was suffered to pass , when kis golden visions so tormented his imagination , that he could endure it no longer , and accordingly wrote to AJr . Bo \ y yer ^ i desiring him to send the debtofr ^ and
creditor account ^ most liberally permitting the remittances to be forwarded ^ t Mr . B . ' s con v ^^ ieuce r : Judge of the astonislmieyit , tribulation and ; anguish , excited by th ^ * £ - ceipt of the following ^ pcrpuiiit , ^ or something very much resembling it \ . Th ^ ReV . **^ Cr- v By the »^ of / seventeen co- < i , j ptea of «^ rmon - - £ i 5 6
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; Gleanirig $ . 513
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VOE ,, XIII , 3 V
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 513, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/41/
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