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486 number, undoubtedly genuine, have found their way to Europe. A copy of the J&amp;gt;ook of the Testimonies to the Mysteries of tie Unity, consisting of seventy treatises in four folio volumes, was found in the house of the chief Ockal at Bakhlin, and presented in 1700 to Louis XIV. by Nusralla Ibn Gilda, a Syrian doctor. Other manuscripts are to be found at Home in the Vatican, at Oxford in the Bodleian, at Vienna, at Leyden, at Upsala, and at Munich ; and I)r Porter got possession of the seven standard works of Druse theology while at Damascus. The Munich collection was presented to the king of Bavaria by Clot- bey, the chief physician in the Egyptian army during its occupation of Syria ; and for a number of the other manu scripts we are indebted to the elder Niebuhr. A history of the Druse nationality by the emir Haider Shehaab is quoted by Urquhart.

1em 1em 1em 1em  DRUSIUS, or, (1550- 1616), a learned Protestant divine, distinguished specially as an Orientalist and exegete, was born at Oudenarde, in Flanders, on the 28th June 1550. Being designed for the 