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_V°'y-canxsm-'ssxcozm comma. 119ong hair attached to their turbans, and they foughtjavclins withlike the teeth of lions.9th verse, "And they had breastplates, as it werebreastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings wasas the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle."By their breastplates I understand shields, whichthe Turks carried in their battles; and history tells usthat when they charged an enemy, they made a noiseupon them like the noise of chariot wheels.10th verse, "And they had tails like unto scorpions,and there werestings in their tails ; and their power wasto hurt men five months." The Turkish horsemen hadeach a cimeter which hung in a scabbard at their waist,that they used in blose combat after they had their dischargedjavelins, with which they were very expert,ing sever-a man's or even a horse's head at a blow. Andfrom the time that the Ottoman power or Turkish empirewas first established in Bithynia, until the downfallof the Greek or Eastern Empire, when the Turks tookConstantinople, was five prophetic months, or one hundredand years.11th. vei1e,y" Andthey had a king over them, which isthe angel of the bottom ess pit, whose name in the HebrewDengue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hathThe Turkish govemment had ahis nameAhpollyon."þÿ k i n ¬ ] w ey h ebeigan, nas before mentioned, and he wasa fo ower of e ahometan faith, and truly a servantor-messenger of this doctrine ofthe bottomless pit. Thename pf their iirst king, who is styled in history the founderof _the Turkish_empire, was Othoman or Ottoman,from whom the empire took its name, and has been calledto this day the Ottoman empire. And great has beenthe deal;-lwtion which tlustgovernment has executed uponthe world; and well may is empire be styled Destroyer,in the _ signification of Abaddon or"Apollyon.,'YQ]BB' One woe is past; and behold, there cometyq mg more hereafter." closes the fifth trumpetugglggt woe, commencing at the foundation of the_,empire in Bithynia, in the year A. D. 1298, and¢_p1ppheti¢ months, or 150 years, which carries"__ ghe year A. D. 1448. When we take into