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120 A BOOK OF MIRACLES.
because Ammianus Marcellinus placed a citadel
called Batne, in this province. This river emptied
itself into the Euphrates. At its mouth stood Carchemi,
since called Cercusian on the west, which was
Ptolemy's Chalcitis and the city Carra; and therefore
God brought back the Jews to the country from
whence the patriarch came. On the east was the
province of Gauzan, between the two rivers, Chaborus
and Succorus. This was the first situation of
the Tribes; but they spread into the neighbouring
provinces and upon the banks of the Euphrates.
We have therefore sufficient reason to conclude,
that the Ten Tribes are still in the east, whither God
suffered them to be carried. They areneither destroyed
nor gone from them into the Midlands, as is
the opinion of mallY writers. The families and tribes
are not distinguishable; and it is impossible it should
he otherwise, in sa long a course of ages and a:fflictions
as they have gone through.
1 have here brought together several authentic
and sufficient proofs of the existence of the river
Sambatyon, across which neither boats can cross or
bridges be built, and whose stream of stones and
sand rest on Sabbath-days, and which still exists at
the present day. 1 have shown also the letters
which came from the Israelites of the Ten Tribes
who reside beyond that river in state and splendour.
1 have described their population, their riches,
academies, and civil polity.