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410 would have been very easily understood, Can the negro change his skin, or the leopard his spots ?

* speaks of the chiefs of the mingled people that dwell in the deserts. And Ezekiel † also mentions them independent of all the others, whether Shepherds, or Cushites, or Libyans their neighbours, by the name of the Mingled People. Isaiah ‡ calls them "a nation scattered and peeled; a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled:" which is a sufficient description of them, as having been expelled their own country, and settled in one that had suffered greatly by a deluge a short time before.


 * Jerem. chap. xxv. ver. 24. † Ezek. chap. xsx. ver. 5. ‡ Isa. chap. xviii. ver. 2.

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