or saying this. When
speaking of the Dead sea or as it is styled in Scripture, the Salt
sea, his words are Demque si Jordanis auctus imbribus pisces illuc
influens rapuerit statim mortuntur, et pinguibus aquis supernatant.
In fine, if the Jordan, which runs into it, should when swollen with
rain, carry any fish along with it, they die immediately, and float
upon the surface of the bituminous waters. (Hieron Comment in Ezek.
cap. xlvii.) He also states that no living creature of any
description was to be found in the Dead sea. (Comment in Joel cap.
ii.) According to Volney, clouds of smoke are still observed to
issue from this lake, and he represents the lava and pumice stones
which have been thrown upon its banks to be likewise indubitable
indicators of the agency of fire. The water however of what Milton
describes as--

"That bituminous lake where Sodom dam'd"

--though excessively bitter, and so heavy that the most impetuous
waves can scarcely ruffle its surface is now perfectly transparent.
M. de Chateaubriand who mentions this also informs us that he heard
a noise upon the lake about midnight, which the Bethlehemites who
accompanied him told him, proceeded from legions of small fish,
which come and leap about on the shore.--(Travels, vol. 1, p. 397.,
Lond. 1812). He adds, "M. Seetzen, who is yet travelling in Arabia,
observed in the Dead sea neither the helix nor the muscle, but found
a few shell snails."--Ibid.--_Ed._]

211 [That is, guardians.--_Ed._]

212 [Or attempt to walk.--_Ed._]

213 [That is governed. "Most people in the world are _acted_ by levity
and humour." _South's Sermons_.--_Ed._]

214 [That is, spark.--_Ed._]

215 [That is, set conscience aside.--_Ed._]

216 [That is, corollary or consequence.--_Ed._]

217 [Of good spirit.--_Ed._]

218 [That is, compared to.--_Ed._]

219 [That is, disburthen.--_Ed._]

220 [That is, respecting.--_Ed._]

221 [Oyes, (from oyez, the old imperative of the French verb _ouir_, to
hear) a word used by public criers, before making their
proclamations.--_Ed._]

222 [That is, "pious frauds".--_Ed._]

223 [That is, sue for you or make their suit to you.--_Ed._]

224 [That is, compared to those &c.--_Ed._]

225 [That is, the quarter.--_Ed._]

226 [It is unquestionably a r