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Show I82 ON THE SLAVERY AND COMMERCJO: of Cu!h or Phut; and that we fl10uld fl>ew farther, that but a lingle remnant of Canaan, which was afterwards ruined, was ever in Africa at ali.-Here all is conll:ernation.- But unfortunately again for the argument, though wonderfully for the confirmation that the fcriptures are of divine original, the whole prophecy has been completed. A part of the defcendants of Canaan were hewers of wood and drawers of water, and became tributary and fubjeCl: to the lfraelites, or the defcendants of Shem. The Greeks afterwards, as well as the Romans, who were both the defcendants of Japhet, not only fubdued thofe who were fettled in Sy-n The river Cufa is mentioned by Pliny, Lib. 5· c. 1• and u by P tolomy." H Many ages after thefe fett1ements, there was another f' eruption of the Cujhitts into thefe part1, under the name u of Saraun; and Moor;, who over-ran Afrira, to the very " extremity of Mount Atlas. They pafiCd over and con~ 1' quered Spain to the north, and they extended themfelves '' fouthward, as I faid in my treatife, to the rivers su~galand " Gambia, and as Iow as the Gold Coaj!. I mentioned this " hecaufe I do not think that they proceeded much farther: '' moft oft he nations to the .foutb being, as I imagine, of the " race of Phut. The vety country upon the river Gambia !' on one fide, is at this day called Phuta, of which Bftttt it1 f' his hifiory of Juba lltt1 Sdomtm, gives an account." • OF THE HuMAN SPECIES. ria and Palell:ine, but purfued and conquered all fuch as were then remaining. Thefe were the Tyrians and Carthaginians : the former of whom were ruined by Alexander and the Greeks, the latter by Scipio and the Romans. It appears then that the fecond argm~e~t is wholly inapplicable and falfe: that It IS falfe in its application, becaufe thofe, who were the objeCts of the curfe, were a totally dill:inCl: people: that it is falfe in its proof, becaufe no fuch dill:inguifhing marks, as have been fpecified, are to be found in the divine writings: and that, if the ~roof could be made out, it would be now zhapp! icable, as the curfe has been long completed. With refpeCl: to the third argument, we mull: now fuppofe that the fcriptures are falfe; that mankind did not all fprin.g from the fame original; that there are d1fferent fpecies of men. Now what mull: we jull:ly conclude from fuch a fuppofJtion ? Mull: we conclude that one fpecies is inferiour to another, and that the inferiority depen~s upon their colour, or their features, or their jorm?-No-We mull: now confult the • M 4 analogy |