BEING A CONNECTED

SERIES OF NOTES

ON THE

TEXT AND LITERARY HISTORY OF the bibles,

OR

SACRED BOOKS OF THE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS;

AND ON

THE BIBLES, OR BOOKS ACCOUNTED SACRED BY THE
MAHOMETANS, HINDUS, PARSEES, CHINESE,

AND SCANDINAVIANS.

VOLUME THE SECOND,

CONTAINING

A CONNECTED SERIES OF NOTES ON THE KORAN,
ZEND-AVESTA, VEDAS, KINGS AND EDDA.

THE SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. WHITE, FLEET STREET,

BY T. BENSLEY, BOLT COURT.

1807.

Quare quis tandem me reprehendat, si quantum cæteris ad festos dies ludorum celebrandos, quantum ad alias voluptates, et ad ipsam requiem animi et corporis conceditur temporis: quantum alii tempestivis conviviis, quantum aleæ, quantum pilæ, tantum mihi egomet, ad hæc studia recolenda, sumpsero.

CIC. PRO ARCHIA.

Le changement d'etude est toujours un delassement pour moi.

D'AGUESSEAU.