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 This Argument, which wants no particular Inſtances to confirm it, is, I confeſs, of the greateſt Weight in this Queſtion, and inclines me ſtrongly to believe that the benevolent Author of this Prediction muſt have been.

The learned Diſcoverer of the Inſcription was pleaſed to inſiſt with great Warmth upon the Etymology of the Word Patria, which ſignifying, ſays he, the Land of my Father, could be made uſe of by none but ſuch whoſe Anceſtors had reſided here: But in Anſwer to this Demonſtration, as he called it, I only deſired him to take Notice, how common it is for Intruders of Yeſterday, to pretend the ſame Title with the ancient Proprietors, and having juſt received an Eſtate by voluntary Grant, to erect a Claim of hereditary Right. Nor