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sumnaary, or repertory of the sub-
itle. The meaning of the Hebrew
duced first, then a digested account

soil, geographical po-
lucidating the text. It
ter devoted to the subject.
ler are of the best, but the
so as to be accessible to general

the climate of Judea, after alluding to its
)r mentions its warmth,
,d goes on, " The cold of
der than in European eli-
:ther to the north, but it is
aral character of the climate
and cold are, however, tern-
surface ; the winter being
9 in the summer the heat
`he contrary, in the more
nonths, or rather weeks,
sometimes falls, while
commonly cool and refreshing.
—it either snow or frost; and in
- occurs, the sun in the
warm, and often hot ; so
..ality but little felt, and the
iTs, may enjoy, during several
.iore genial and invigorating influ-
,s is the ordinary character of the
.1 some years the cold is more severely
ort time that it prevails, which is never
, and more frequently not so much
~ards the end of November, or beginning of
domestic fires become agreeable. It was at
time that Jehoiakim, King of Judah, is represented
is winter house, with a fire burning in the hearth be-
him. The same luxury, though frequently by no
ns necessary, is used by the wealthy till the end of

n, the autlic

ideed sometimes f)

a tea RO

asupportable, and on

'equently occur, and

two months

* * The inhabitants of
six several seasons of the
ind harvest, cold and heat,
grieulture constituted the
tics, they adopted the same
once to their rural work :
the Arabs to this day.—

of seasons

:y that the work has not been brought down to
.cent discoveries of Dr. Wilde, Lord Lindsay,

I to the situation of the field of blood—the
e Armenians now bury their dead, from their
nvent on Mount Zion—it does not appear
'one with it; though tradi-
Dr. Wilde read an inte-
f Physicians in 1839, and an
ound in his " Narrative of a
Sze.," wherein he stated that
ma. The following remarks
cription does not correspond
. "He had personally exa-
scovered at Jerusalem, and,
in, he was led to believe it to
ield of Blood.' purchased with
turned by Judas to the Jewish
of this tomb was of a mixed archi-
diment being Grecian, the floral
chitrave Hebrew, and the door
a horizontal hinges. Inside it
of the solid rock, each
the thre• sides, in all of
I. The skulls which be
ad never inhabited that
ers' at Jerusalem at this period.
The skulls belonged to

oubtful

rig paper at the College

IT to Made

Acaldama, or th

are and y

were of

1, Ethiopian, or the mixed races : two of
uthority of Dr. Prichard, were of Turkish
rohably a negro of Mozambique.
by an Arab of the

f Siloe

Africa'.

)resent System of Business among
ers. By Edward Flower.

caring this title has recently been pub-
perusal of it has left upon our minds a
he intelligence and philanthripy of the
lan), who here most ably advocates the
)keepers' assistants—showing its numer-
a hostile feeling to the interests of the
Joints out remedial measures which, if
t in the emancipation of

)ably r

iru unreasonably long night
to themselves morally
ue community at large. He
general condition of the assistants,
ander which their lives are passed;
habits of life in a physical, moral, in-
; how those effects reach
;y ; the reformation required
,ystem, and elevate the morals
community ; and, finally, the means by
)roved system may be brought about, and
enefits that would arise from an abridgment
f business, from fourteen and sixteen, to
v. The subject has occupied public at-
years; and in this town the necessity for
.ady been more fully acknowledged than
;hall not, therefore, here enter into de.
Tons evils of the present system ; but
perusal of the work—from which an
• be found elsewhere—to our readers)
)alysis of our author's remedial pro-
f.st term of daily labour to which
subject being ten hours, he

ell as t

classes of societ

emove the evils of the

d artis

a moderate claim on the part of the shop-

ers' assistants, that their hours of attendance should
duced to that time—terminating not later than seven
. The object is merely "to compress the
a day into so many consecutive hours as
r their due performance ; "—the entire time
employed attendance to be devoted to
iiritual health of the assistants. The
recommends, and which has already
le progress in the town, is "to
)f the assistants upon the benevolent
he public,—showing the evils attendant
system of never-ending toil, and the
would be likely to attend an altered
avouring to prevail upon all classes of
their purchases by day, and to abstain
my shops after six in the evening. He
appeal should be made by advertise-
public meetings, and handbills widely
of public lectures on the
icts and, finally, by from
blishing " the names of those high-minded
take part in the good work of allowing
tion and ennobling studies to their depen-
r quotes from a writer in the Liver-
stion, that, in order to show the
ours with advantage, a

leliver

ssistants

id others, to

e of goods in the vari-
pkeepers, at which the
adhered to; and that
shares, say 500 of £lO
for cash. The success
1, induce others to
in our author is inclined

differ from him in opi-

lad would, in other
; and being in oppo-

trades, it is not

ers would retain the assistants
it service, as they would virtu-

in another concern carrying on

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