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esnnded by the streights of Clhilee, or done in it, and this important ferret
flianar. It contains about fifty -five was buried with him.
leag ies in length Srom north to south, lt does not, however, appear, that
and about thirty form east to WeiL this epitaub hat any relation whatever
It is a spot so delicious, that many have to our first parent ; and, if it was
believed it the seat of the terrestrial composed for any other person who
paradise ; and it is certain the inbabi- was interred there, the opinion of those
tants generally believe this, which they who hold that Paradise was Seated in
pretend to prove, by shewing at this this island, Salls os itSeis to the.ground,;
day the tomb of Adirm, and the print for we know that the angel os God
of his foot, on the mountain called drove Adam and Fate ont of Paradisu
the pike os Alanc, which is one of after their fall. Aium therefore could
the highest mountains in all the Indies. not possibly die, or be buried, there.
another mountain there is a fait unlets we should say. that Paradise was
fake, which the inhabitant affirm was no more than a district. or little councaufed
by the tears shed by Eve during try, in this island. Some historians,
ber hundred years weeping for the such a5 Munstor, and others, assure us
death of Abel .that Adirm and Eve, alter their fall.
With regard tea the tomb, the na- went to dwell in the neighbourhand os
t'tvs of Ceylon are firmly persuaded that Damascus t They Shew, to this day at
the father os mankind lies interred in the distance os two leagues from that
it: This they think is put beyond dif- city, tire place where -Cain flew his
ptite by the epitaph, which, however, brother Ahel .D.rr^iseus. say they,
no-body can read. Abundance of signifies a place of blood ; which name
morions travellers have Seen aaul copied was given to this country, to perpe-
^lhe letters, but to no manner oS pur- -mate the memory oS this first murderpoSe
, far the learned in all lotions er, agreeable to what God Said to Cain,
have declared themselves at a loSs lor ' The voice oS thy brother's blood
the fenfe of it, and the oriental critics crieth unto me froni the ground, which
as much as the rest. Whence they hath opened her mouth to receive thy
infer that it was written in the primi- brother's blood from thy hand'. Most
five language of mankind, spoken o- travellers to oriental countries have rever
the face of the whole earth, before marked, that Adam was buried in the
the confusion os tongues at Babel. mountain of Go^otha ; and that on the
borne learned men are of opinion, that passion of our Saviour, the rocks being
this primitive language consisted inthe rent, there was found in. the clefts oS
'five vowels a, e, i, o, u, in which is them the Skull of our first parent.
contained the name os the living God, Epiphanius seems to have been os that
viz. J E O V A, and os which five vo- opinion, when he says, that Adieus, be
wels it is impossible to compose any ing driven out os Paradise, went to live
other word, in any language what- in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem ; and
'ever. It as Said that the late Mr. Mul- that, dying there, be was buried in the
ler offered to discover this key to all mountain Go^tha, where his skull was
languages to the States General of the afterwards found; and that, for this
united provinces, for a certain sum of reason, the mountain was in succeedmoney-
Undoubtedly, if such a key ing times called Calvary. This opinicould
be diseovered, it would be of on, however, appears to me to be illgreat
advantage, with regard to our founded ; sot, the earth being over-
'commerce with the eastern nations: turned, and, in most parts, broken tu
But, this afl^ir of the purchase being pieces, by the deluge, we must nrdrawn
out to a tedious length, that ceSfarily foppofe, that the tomb os
'oreat man died before -any thing was Aahsa.s, whatever it was placed, could