sun was in the Bull; the Bull was, therefore, in their figurative way
of speaking, the father of harvest, not only because he ploughed the
ground, but because the sun was there when they got in their harvest:
thus the Bull was doubly distinguished as their benefactor; he was now,
more than ever, become the _Bull of life_, i. e. he was not only called
_Abir_, the Bull, but _Abir-am_ or Ab'-r-am, the _Bull of life_,--the
father of harvest. And as their harvest was originally under the
direction of Iseth, or Isis, whatever belonged to harvest was _Isiac_;
but the Bull, _Abiram_, was now become the _father of Isiac_! and to
give this the appearance of a human descent, they added to Abir, the
masculine affix _ah_; then it became AB'-RH-AM who was the father of
Isiac. And we actually find _this equivoque_ in the hebrew history of
_Abram_ whom the Lord afterwards called _Abraham_, who was the _father
of Isaac_, whose seed was to be countless as the sand on the sea-shore
for multitude; even this is truly applied to _Isiac_ the offspring of
Ab'-rh-am; for countless indeed are the offspring of the _scythe and
sickle_! but if we allow _Isiac_ to be a _real son of Ab-rah-am_ we
must enquire after his _mother_. During the time that the equator
[perhaps he means the sun] is passing through the constellation of the
Bull in the spring, the Bull would _rise in the east_ every morning in
the harvest time, in Egypt,--but in the _poetical language of the
ancients_, it would be said that, when ABIR-AM _consorts_ with _Aurora_
he will produce _Isiac_. But _Aurora_ is well known to be the _golden
splendour of the east_, and the brightness of the east is called
_Zara_, and the morning star is _Serah_, in the eastern languages, and
we find a similar change of sound in the name of Isaac's mother, whom
the Lord would no longer call _Sarai_ but Sarah. _These_ ARE remarkable
coincidences!"--_Companion to the Mythological Astronomy_, Norwich,
1824, 12mo. pp. 177-179.

M.

In answer to the inquiry respecting this singular man, I beg to say that I
remember him between the years 1826 and 1830, as a shoemaker in Norwich. He
was in a low rank of trade, and in poor circumstances, which he endeavoured
to improve by exhibiting at private houses an orrery of his own making. He
was recognised as a "genius;" but, as may be seen by his writings, had