Relating to the principal Matters contained in these Volumes.
Braham, a mighty prince, 1.
115, 116; but very paci-
fic, i. 117; elegant, i. 118,
119; rich in filver and gold,
as well as cattle, i. 120, 121;
his riches how acquired, i. 121,
&c; entertained angels, i. 323,
326; liberality on that occa-
fion, i. 328
A 1.
Abftemioufnefs, it's effects, i. 357
Acts, Royal, how drawn up, ii. 290
Egypt, it's want of rain, i. 51;
manner of collecting honey
there, ii. 193; not a wine-
country, ii. 308; it's vines
and fycomores anciently it's
moft valuable trees, ib; the
little wine that was made there
very delicious, ii. 311; why
date-trees are not mentioned
in the history of the plague of
hail, ii. 312; double feed time
and harvest there, ii. 315; ma-
ny useful plants fuppofed to be
brought thither in the time of
the Califs, ii. 317, note; fish
in the Nile, ii, 323, &c; few
of them quite pleasant, ii. 326;
it's delicious birds, &c. ii. 340;
it's horfes, ii. 346; it's linen
coarfe, ii. 349
Ægyptians, lived on fish and herbs
in April and May, ii. 327; their
vegetable food, ii. 332, &c;
ftrongly attached to their own
country, ii. 364; many of them,
however, forced formerly to
leave it, ii. 366
Aleppo, Dr. Ruffell's account of
the weather there, i. 18, 19
Alexander the Great, affumed the
manners of the East, ii. 35
Alighting, an expreffion of re-
spect, ii. 116
Anchors, carried at the stern, ii.
497; placed one on each fide, ib.
Anger, an odd eaftern way of ex-
preffing it, ii. 492
Apples, of the O. T. feem to
mean citrons, i. 397, &c; fo
understood by the Chaldee Pa-
raphraft, i. 401
Arabs, permitted to cultivate some
land where they fojourn, as
well as feed their cattle, i. 83;
fagacious in their choice of it,
i. 85: frequently rob the huf-
bandman of his feed-corn, i. 86;
their eager watching for paffen-
gers, i. 95; riding into houfes,
I. 96; thofe of the fame family
wont to live together, i. 99; not
afraid to infult the most victori-
ous princes, i. 104; rapacious,
i. 107, 108; fome tribes much
more mifchievous than others,
i. 112; fome very fmall, i. 116;
manner of falling on caravans,
i. 126; furniture of their tents,
i. 127 their tents fmoky, i.
134; colour, i. 135; their ho-
fpitality, i. 324; way in which
fome of their poets have been
honoured, ii. 178; manner of
making war on each other, ii.
239; diftant places not fafe
from them, ii. 292; their wo-
men eafily delivered, ii. 506
Ariel, or Lion of God, the holy
city why so called, i. 212, &c.
Arms, buried with warriors, ii.
138, &c; concealed in water,
ii. 256; hung up in times of
joy, ii. 518
Army, the flight of that of the | Beds, one for each person in the
Syrians and that of Saladine
resembled each other, ii. 255
Ashes, used in morter, i. 179
Affes, one only afked for by the
Shunamitefs, i. 449; presents
made of them, ii. 26; much
ufed by the lawyers of Perfia,
ii. 27; white, ii. 68; an afs
oddly made the name of a prince,
ii. 184; wild, their great fwift-
nefs, ii. 185
Baca, valley of, i. 422
Badger-skins, what seem to be of-
ten meant by them, ii. 376
Bag-pipe, i. 413, &c.
Balconies, not allowed in Jerufa-
lern, i. 219
Baking, how performed by the
Arabs, i. 231, &c; a trade in
fome places of the East, i. 269
Banners, their terriblenefs ex-
plained, i. 478; a pledge of
fafety, ii. 266, &c.
Bardacks, what, ii. 12
Barley, bread made of it, i. 249;
prepared by taking off the hulk,
1. 250; parched, i. 274; it's
flour mingled with water ex-
cellent for the fatigued, i. 275;
used for horfes, i. 424; mea-
fure of it given for a temporary
wife, ii. 513
Barrel, of the O. T. fhould have
been tranflated jar, i. 279
Basket, meat put in one by Gi-
deon, and presented to an an-
gel, i. 330; what meant by it
Deut. xxviii. 5, 17, i. 418, note
Bats, idols' caft to them, how to
be understood, ii. 457
Beard, Joab's taking hold of A-
mafa's confidered, ii. 54; cut
off, a great infamy, ii. 55; beg-
ging for it's fake, ib; carried
off as a proof of victory, ii. 263
Bears, found in or near Judæa,
ii. 220, note
Eaft, i. 165; adorned with fil-
ver and gold, i. 200; corner of
one, ii. 61; lightness of them,
ii. 66, note; of iron, what, ii.
67; chamber of, ii. 488
Bee-hives, the conftruction of
them in Palestine, ii. 195
Behen.oth, why mentioned before
the Leviathan, ii. 319
Bells, their holiness to the Lord,
i. 470, &c
Belshazzar, his feaft confidered,
i. 194, &c.
Ben-hadad, his grant to Ahab,
ii. 259
Benjamin, largeness of his mess,
i. 347
Birds, the time of their finging,
i. 30, 31; several of thofe of
Ægypt delicious, ii. 340; dif-
ficulty to a Jew to ascertain
which are lawful, ii. 344
Birth of a fon, announced with
particular ceremonies, ii. 51
Bleffing, why Eaftern falutations
fo denominated, ii. 40
Blue, anciently a magnificent
drefs, ii. 519
Bo, what that Hebrew verb fig-
nifies, i. 65
Boars, wild, the places where
found, ii. 216
Boats, the velocity of thofe of
the Nile and the Euphrates,
i. 439, &c.; thofe of fhips how
managed, ii. 496.
Bones, frequently mean corpse,
i. 48, 49
Books, a method propofed for de-
termining where fome were
written, 72; of what mate-
rials the Jewish were com-
pofed, ii. 170; Dean Prideaux
miftaken in fuppofing they were
of parchment, ii. 172; more
probably of linen, ib; adorned
with paintings or drawings, ii.
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