* being an hundred and ten years old.
   {Ben meah we(8369)ser shanim;} "the son of an hundred and ten
   years;" the period he lived being personified.

  22  47:9,28  Jos 24:29 
 * they embalmed.
  2,3 



                        CONCLUDING REMARKS.

 Thus terminates the Book of Genesis, the most ancient record in
 the world; including the History of two grand and stupendous
 subjects, Creation and Providence; of each of which it presents
 a summary, but astonishingly minute and detailed accounts.
 From this Book, almost all the ancient philosophers,
 astronomers, chronologists, and historians have taken their
 respective data; and all the modern improvements and accurate
 discoveries in different arts and sciences, have only served to
 confirm the facts detailed by Moses, and to shew, that all the
 ancient writers on these subjects have approached, or receded
 from, truth and the phenomena of Nature, in exactly the same
 proportion as they have followed or receded from, the Mosaic
 history.  The great fact of the deluge is fully confirmed by
 the fossilised remains in every quarter of the globe.  Add to
 this, that general traditions of the deluge have veen traced
 among the Egyptians, Chinese, Japanese, Hindoos, Burmans,
 ancient Goths and Druids, Mexicans, Peruvians, Brazilians,
 North American Indians, Greenlanders, Otaheiteans, Sandwich
 Islanders, and almost every nation under heaven; while the
 allegorical turgidity of these distorted traditions
 sufficiently distinguishes them from the unadorned simplicity
 of the Mosaic narrative.  In fine, without this history the
 world would be in comparative darkness, not knowing whence it
 came, nor whither it goeth.  In the first page, a child may
 learn more in an hour, than all the philosophers in the world
 learned without it in a thousand years.