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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Malte Brun's Geography, vol. VI., p. 77.
[2] Mr. Duponceau's Report to the Hist. and Lit. Comm. of the American Phil. Soc., p. 11.
[3] Gibbon's Roman Empire, vol. I., p. 387.
[4] Researches into the Origin and Affinity of the Principal Languages of Europe, and Asia, p. 142.
[5] Procopius in Bell. Van., lib. I., c. 2.
[6] Adelung's, Mithridates, vol. I., p. 277.
[7] Wheaton's Hist. of the Northmen, p. 51, et seq.
[8] Speaking of ears. That was an ingenious and kindred elucidation of a passage of Scripture, which was given by a Methodist clergyman, of whom we have somewhere read. 'In those ancient days,' said the divine, 'small crimes were punished by cropping off the ears; so that it rarely happened, that a large concourse of people could assemble, without a considerable proportion of them, and oftentimes more, being deprived of their auricular members. Hence we view, my brethren, the propriety of that frequent remark of our Saviour, when addressing a mixed multitude, 'He that hath ears to hear, let him hear!'' It was the same profound biblical critic, who made St Paul's similitude, touching his late conversion, ('as one born out of due time,') quite level to the comprehension of his hearers, by explaining, that the apostle 'was undoubtedly a seven-months' child!'