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6. Now It was common in thofe days for the people of Columbia, old and young, to eat fwine's fiefh, yea the mothers would give it to their children, and it was reported that fome eat it even on the Sabbath day!

7. Thus the fountain of life became cor- rupted, and the inhabitants were difeafed through the abundant ufe thereof. Never- thelefs, the flefh was lawful to be eaten ia like manner as the llefli of other fed beads.

8. Moreover, many of ths people of the land drank of the Rrong waters* of Barba- does, that burned like fire, and refufed the the fweet waters of the brook that were de- figned for the univerfal beverage of all na- tions.

9. And the days of the years of man's life were fhortened, and thoufandswere cut off in the morning of their days!

10. And it came to pafs, that fome of the


 * Rum.