3. 31." Thus it was when God, reviewing all that he had 5." Hitherto, neither plant nor herb of the field existed or 6. 18. I will make, instead of the plural. Confultation with infinite wisdom, power and goodness, is out of the queftion. Volition is action. He fpake and it was done, is the most emphaticai representation of an inftantaneous production conformable to the will of God. Many learned men apply this as a proof of the doctrine of the Trinity. The Doctrine refts upon more indifputable proofs. 7. "Stitching together fig-leaves, they made to themfelves waift-girdles." 24. "Cherubs with flame-brandishing fwords, to guard the 4. 2." A god-like man-child." 6. 14. "Thou exileft me, when fecluded from thy prefence, I fhall be a reflefs fugitive." 15. N." A token of fecurity not fet a mark upon, which the "Hebrew will not bear." 23. 24. "A man I have killed. But to my own wounding. A young man, but to my own bruifing. If feven-fold vengeance be taken for Cain, for Lamech must feventy times feven-fold." We agree fo far with the Doctor that Lamech was confcious that he was juftified in killing the man. But we think the very words imply that the man was the aggreffor, and that he was put to death for the wounds and the bruifes which he had inflicted upon Lamech. 26. This man aspired to be called after the name of God. The common tranflation pleases us much more. 2. We think the chapter ends as properly here as it would do with the 24th verfe. The first verfe of the 5th Chapter begins the Genealogy, which is fubftituted for Generations. "The fons of the Gods, i. e. (in a note) the great and "powerful, who, after the example of Eros, arrogated "to themselves a god-like fuperiority over the vulgar " clafs 8. 9. - "clafs of men, whofe daughters they ravished at plea"fure. The fpurious fruit of fuch connexions became a lawless, hardy race of men called Giants, not "fo much, perhaps, from their enormous ftature, as "from their outrageous violence-" The common tranflation is literal and exact, except may be rendered the Gods, that is the great men. They, as well as Enos, might fay to the Doctor, Unde petitum, &c. 3. "I will never, at unawares, pronounce judgment against "mankind." 12. 13. How much more forcibly does the common tranflation exprefs the mercy of God, who declares his remembrance of human infirmity, and allows 120 years for repentance ? "So when God beheld the earth, and saw that it was corrupted (for corrupted were the manners of all earthly flesh)" "The abomination instead of the end." 16. "A floping deck shalt thou make to the ark, and shalt top it 7. 14. 15. off." "To forefbun the waters." Ground reptiles-birds and birdlings." "Pairs of all flesh, in which was vital breath." 16. "Given in command." 11. "A newly-pluckt olive-leaf." 19." According to their kindreds." Catachrefis. Vir gregis. 5. "From a man's own brother, even." Let us obferve, once for all, that the Doctor, in several inftances, miftakes this appellation, fo familiar in the Old and New Teftainent. Here it furely means fellowcreature, and is used to point out in ftronger terms rhe atrocioufnefs of murder. In the 13th Ch. v. 9. We are brethren is changed to We are kinsmen. The fenfe is hereby weakened. - 25. In a note. "The imprecations and benedictions of Noah "have puzzled interpreters." It seems to us wonderful, that men do not yet perceive, that thefe bleffings and curfes were denunciations of God's vengeance. That holy men fpake only as they were infpired: that their power to blefs and to curfe was given them from above. Accurfed is Canaan: a flave of flaves fhall he be to his brethren, is the literal interpretation, but the Doctor makes it a wifh. 9. Nimrod is a powerful plunderer.-We are informed in the note that the word hunter expreffes too little. "Nimrod was a freebooter in the worst fenfe of the "word; a lawless defpot, who regarded neither God "nor man." 4. A name-place inftead of a name. 12. 13. 14. "It happened accordingly." It came to pafs feems to us more eafy and fimple. 10. Irriguous" instead of well-watered. 16. 14. The Doctor fays it fhould be " Beer Elohi rue."-The common reading feems at least as eligible. 17. 7. The Doctor tranfpofes the verb when in the original it ftands first. 27. All the men of his house, is better than domeftics. 18.. Turpentine tree for plane. 21. 23. 24. - 8. Cream for butter. 12. Year-worn for waxed old. 33. Tamarifk grove instead of grove. 16. Market currency, for current money with the merchant. 2. Senior domeftic, for eldest fervant. 27. 37. Conftituted, for made. fifter. 30. 8. With great rivalry have I rivalled my fifter, inftead of great wrestlings have I wrestled with my 11. Leah faid in luck and the called his name Gad (luck). 20. Delight in me for dwell with me. 31.19. Teraphs for images. N." I have retained the original word rather than venture on a dubious equivalent. The Teraphs are thought to have been little images con"fecrated to Religion, like the Penates or Household "Gods of the Romans. Perhaps they were not much "different from the Indian Talifmans." Images is a term more intelligible to common readers, and as expreffive as Teraphs. 40. Inftead of Thus I was; in the day the drought confumed 52. Standing tone inftead of pillow. 2. Concubines for handmaids.-They were fecondary wives, 14. Inftead of I will lead on foftly, according as the cattle that goeth before me, and the children be able to endure," Whilft I will follow gently, at fuch a pace as "the incumbrance of the cattle, and the children "that are with me, fhall permit." Query, Whether the word rendered cattle does not include all the train and baggage. 34. 10. Traffic for trade-acquire for get. 8. Turpentine tree for oak. 18. The Doctor fays the Sam. has Benjamim, the Son of Day. He is called the Son of Jacob's old age. 36. - 1. Progeny for generations. 39. Chap. Jofeph is called a flave instead of a fervant. The latter feems the more proper. 40. 1. No neceffity for faying the chief butler and the chief baker. The fimple names are used in the original, and are to be understood by way of eminence. 41.42. 5. The variation of this verfe is more in words than in sense, and it runs less easily in the Doctor's than in our own verfion. "They both dreamed dreams in the fame night, each "his own dream, and the dream of each (that is of "the butler and the baker, which were detained in "the prifon-house) correfponding with its own inter"pretation." 17. For bake meats, paftry work, In old English the former was used for the latter. 42. For fine linen, muslin. 1. For corn in Egypt, a fale of grain in Egypt. This laft is the true fenfe of the original word. 9. For nakedness weakness, that is, the defencelefs condition. 43. At the end. They drank and were merry begins the 44th Ch, 9. For pilgrimage, fojournment. 22. For I have given, I affign. 47. 48. We fhail here for the prefent month conclude our obfervations on the arduous attempt of Dr. Geddes, intending, in our next number, to comprise the whole of what we have to offer on this firft volume. (To be concluded in our next.) ART. II. The Anatomy of the Bones, Mufcles, and Joints. By John Bell, Surgeon. Large 8vo. 459 pp. 9s. Edinburgh, G. Mudis. ANATOMY, in common with every other branch of na tural science, has been going on in progreffive improvement ever fince the revival of letters in Europe. It therefore becomes neceffary, from time to time, that new fyftems fhould be formed, in which the effays of different Profeffors, who have exerted themfelves in perfecting the defcriptions of particular parts of the body, or in a meliorating the whole, thould be collected. Defcriptions of the bones and muscles, as being the most fimple and obvious parts, have been long fince given with fo much accuracy; their connexion, motion, and ufes fo clearly pointed pointed out, and fuch elegant delineations of them, published by almost innumerable Anatomifts, particularly by Bidler, Albinus, Cowper, Winflow, Monro, Sir A. Haller, &c. as to leave little to be done upon thofe parts. As far, therefore, as this volume extends, the obfervation with which the author begins his preface, feems hardly admiffible. "To thofe," he says, "who are at all acquainted with books on Anatomy, the appearance of a new one on the fubject will not be furprising." Neither is what he observes further on, where he complains of the neglect of Anatomy, quite intelligible to us. So far, indeed, are we from feeing any strong fymptoms of this neglect, that we are fometimes tempted to believe, that it is cultivated with a nicety bordering on faftidioufnefs, and those minute. refearches into the minuter parts of the frame, which occupy fo much of the attention of many great Anatomifts, might fometimes, we imagine, be difpenfed with. Be this as it may, the errors in the defcriptions of the bones and muscles, are by no means confiderable, and are such as are easily corrected by the teachers of Anatomy, and demonftrated on the dead body. And after all, no one must expect to acquire a competent knowledge of Anatomy from reading the best and most accurate defcriptions, or from examining and ever fo attentively contemplating the most lively delineations. It is from actual inspection of the parts, from frequenting the diffecting-room alone, that the ftudent muft expect to acquire that knowledge, which will enable him to become a good practical Surgeon. It seemed, therefore, incumbent upon this author to have pointed out, in a distinct manner, in what his account of the bones and mufcles excels thofe who have gone before him, or in what, indeed, it differs from them. It will not, be expected that we fhould compare the defcription of each bone, muscle, and joint, with the accounts of preceding writers, but as far as our examination has gone, the advantage is not always in favour of this work. Let any one examine it with Monro's Anatomy, which we mention as being in the hands of every Surgeon, and which we think will justi fy us in this remark. Having faid thus much, which regard to the great men who have laboured, and are labouring to improve the art, feemed to demand, we fhall readily acknowledge that the author has collected his materials with industry and has enriched his work with the principal improvements in phyfiology, which the present age has produced. We shall now extract two or three fpecimens, which will serve to show the flyle of the author and give fome idea of the execution of the work. On |