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Different Effels of Female Innocence and Vice.

her friends, now the object of their deepest forrow! Ah! turn afide ye mourners! behold the maid! fhe is not dead, but fleepeth! a little while and the hall arife more lovely than the morning, more graceful than the queens of the earth. Arrayed in fpotless innocence the thall come forth, and chide your murmurings for her glorious change. Ere misfortune had forced the figh, or deceit ftained the mind, the was conducted by angels to the abodes of joy, and feated by the prince of love in the bowers of paradife.

Humanity muft feel, but reafon checks the overflowings of grief; religion marks the bound; fenfibility Tends the tear; misfortunes lead to wifdom; but how painful the road! at every step a thorn pierces, or an adder ftings. Happy thofe, who trufting to the experience of others, are not foolishly wife for themselves. Be advised ye young; be inftructed ye gay, ye fair! Take of the fruit already gathered, left a ferpent lurk in the grafs, and you feel too late the venom of his fting.

Abandoned to (hades and folitude, condemned to pass her days in obfcu

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rity, and her nights in folitude, Califta had not been, but for a fatal mistake. Vice affumed the mask of pleasure, and eafily imposed on the too credulous fair. Triumph not in her weakness ye fons of reafon! It is your duty to support, but it is you who oppress.

Let me ever fhare the woes I cannot relieve, and beftow the pity I would with in like circumftances to share. Never may my breast be callous, or my lips forget the law of mutual fympa.. thy and kindness. Swift be my feet when the cry of calamity pierces my ear, and powerful be my efforts in eafing the plaints of virtue. Even when it might be just to be fevere, may I remember that farcasm is a bitter potion, and to be adminiftered only by thofe who have no foibles of their own.

Infenfibility, thou idol of fools, I deteft thy very name! thou bane of blifs, from incapability of enjoyment, be thou never mine, but at two periods, if they should ever arrive (which kind heaven avert) then spread thy influence over every fense, and fcreen me from myfelf in the dreary mantle of forgetfulness.

For the LONDON MAGAZINE.

Account of two curious Ancient Coins which have a Relation to the univerfal Deluge in Noah's Time, with a Defcription of the Baris or facred Ship of the Egyp

tians.

(Illuftrated with a Copper Plate.)

T is evident from the ancient hif- The Greeks called an ark Kitc

Itoisee fallations, that the general Cibotus,

deluge, as defcribed in the facred hiftory, was no fecret to the Gentile world. The ingenious Mr. Bryant hath, in his late work, collected together a number of particulars in proof of this, and hath reflected great and new light on the interefting fubject. Many are the emblematical reprefentations among the ancient nations which related to the deluge, and the prefervation of one family in the ark. Both fhips and temples, as well as cities and perfons, received their names from hence; being ftyled by the Greeks, who borrowed largely from Egypt, Nate and Naes, and Naura mariners, in reference to the patriarch, who was variously styled Noas, Naus, and Neah.

as well as Theba. The above author obferves, that the fathers of the Greek church, when they treated of the ark, made use of the word Kiro. It is alfo the term ufed by the Seventy, Gen. vi. 14, and even by the Apostles themfelves, Heb. xi. 7. 1 Peter iii. 20. The city Cibotus ftood far inland upon the fountains of the river Mariyas, in Phrygia, and from its name appears to have a reference to the hiftory. The other name, Apamea, is faid to have been conferred upon it in latter times; but Mr. Bryant imagines that Celena was the ancient name of the city, and Cibotus was properly the temple-a diftinction not properly attended to formerly. It was undoubtedly named Cibotus in nemory of the ark and of

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ANAMEN
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A PAMLE sive CIBOTI Urbis

Numismata duo ex Seguino, et Falconerio.

BARIS, sive Navis sacra

Agyptiaca

Emblematical Representations of the Deluge.

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Ancient Memorials of the Deluge.

the history with which it is connected,
for the people there had preferved
more particular and authentic tradi-
tions concerning the flood, and the
prefervation of
Noah, than are to be met with elfe-
mankind through
where. Falconer has a curious differ-
tation upon a coin of Philip the elder,
which was ftruck at this place, and
contained on its reverse an epitome of
this history, as No. I. in the plate.

There was another coin ftruck by
the fame people, as No. II. On the
one fide is the head of Severus,
crowned with laurel on the other,
the ark, with the fame perfons in it,
and the like circumftances defcribed.
Upon the reverfe of the first is deli-
neated a kind of fquare machine,
floating upon the water. Through
an opening in it are feen two perfons, a
man and a woman as low as to the
breast, and upon the head of the wo-
man is a veil. Over the ark is a kind
of triangular pediment, on which
there fits a dove; and another which
feems to Autter its wings, and holds in
its mouth a fmall branch of a tree.
Before the machine is a man following
a woman; who, by their attitude,
feem to have just quitted it, and to
have gotten on dry land. Upon the
ark itself, underneath the perfons
there inclofed, is to be read in diftinct
characters NAE. The learned Falco-
ner had feen three of these coins; they
were of brass, and of the medallion
fize.

Mr. Bryant alfo obferves, that befides this people, there feems to have been a notion that the ark itself refted on the hills of Celenæ, where the city Cibotes was founded; for the Sibylline oracles, wherever they were compofed, include thefe hills under the name of Ararat. However, the beft memorials of the ark were here preferved, and the people were ftyled Magnetes, and upon their coins was the figure of the ark, under the name Οι Αργω Μαγνήτων.

Not far from Cibotus, was a city called Baris; a name of the fame purport as the former, and certainly founded in memory of the fame event. The Argo of the Greeks was the fame as the hip of Noah, of which

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the Baris in Egypt was a reprefentation, as No. III. of the plate. So ftrong were the impreffions which the hiftory and traditions of the deluge that it was one great fubject of their had left on the minds of mankind, religious inftitutions. The priests of Ammon at particular feafons carried in proceffion a boat, in which was an oracular fhrine held in great veneraDeity in an ark or boat was in use tion. The custom of carrying the alfo among the Egyptians; which cuftom will be found to relate to Noah and the deluge. The fhip of Ifis is well known, and the celebrity among the Egyptians wherever it was carried in public. The name of this and of all the navicular fhrines was Baris, which is very remarkable, for which the ark of Noah refted, accord. it was the name of the mountain on ing to Nicol. Damafcenus; the fame Ifis was certainly a facred emblem; in as Ararat in Armenia. The ship of honour of which there was among the Egyptians an annual festival. It was mans, and fet down in their Calendar afterwards admitted among the Rofor the month of March. The formary deities, have continually fome mer, in their defcriptions of the prireference to a fhip or float; and they defcribed the fun in the character of fun is by feveral mentioned as fitting a man failing on a float. Orus or the upon the lotus, and failing in a veffel. An ark or fhip was introduced into and often carried about on their feftithe mysteries of many other people, vals, and fome rites fimilar to the exhibition of the facred fhip Baris are mentioned in the famous itory of the fculptures which Bifhop Pocock obferved among the ruins at ancient Argonauts. In the copies of the Thebes, the extremities in each of the boats were fashioned nearly alike, and there was no diftinction of head and ftern. This kind of veffel was copied Amphiprumna; they fay that Danaus by the Greeks, and ftiled by them came from Egypt to Argos, in a ship of this form, and that they are "a occafion;" they were always regarded kind of fhips fent upon any falutary as holy and of good omen.

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MATHEMATICAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Anfwers to the Queflions in our Magazine for March last.

[52] QUESTION I. Anfwered by Mr. Bonnycastle, Mafter of the Academy at

A

Hackney.

CCORDING to Mr. Machin's famous

355

quadrature of the circles + + 672 4014 &c. length of the arc whofe fine is sand radius r. Now to compare the folution of 4, the prefent queftion with this feries, let DC=x, AD = BC=a= fine of the angle AOG, and the radius OA=r: then 3a :

x 2

-

a2

= DE

за
4a2-x2

=FE, and

56a2x2-100a4—x4
36a2

4a2-x22 +56a2x2—100a+—x4

6a

2

4a2x2 =
6a

AC; whence 2a +

36a2

6a

the value of a and throwing it into a feries is ♪ +

3622

X

=

513 3272 32×3274 the two first terms of which very nearly agree with thofe in the general series abovementioned, and is an approximation to the arc fufficiently near in practice.

We were favoured with answers to this queftion by Mr. Todd, Mr. Robbins, Mr. Keech, Mr. Hamphire, and others.

[53] QUESTION II. Anfwered by Eltonienfis.

IT is well known that the fum of the legs of a right angled triangle is equal to the fum of the bafe, and twice the radius of the intcribed circle, and the