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 So that, dating the 1260 years from the year of our Lord 622, and deducting seventeen years and ninety-five days, it would bring the conclusion of the 1260 years to somewhere about the year of our Lord 1865, minus ninety-five days.

Assuming, therefore, the correctness of this calculation, we may expect that the Mahometan empire will be utterly overthrown about the year of our Lord 1865.

But to this period it also seems from the prophecy we have been examining, that we must add on a period of thirty years, of 360 days each, which would be equivalent to about twenty-nine natural years and 220 days. This would bring us to somewhere about the year 1894; after which we must still look forwards to the conclusion of another period of forty-five years, of 360 days each, which would be equivalent to about forty-four natural years and 140 days. Adding, therefore, forty-four years to 1894, it brings us to somewhere about the year of our Lord 1938, which seems, therefore, to be fixed by the Prophet Daniel as the date of the commencement of the Now, it is a very remarkable fact, that this calculation, which fixes the termination of the periods given by Daniel in his twelfth chapter at about the