the Chaldee particle being prefixed, served to point out Scorpio, which their superstition would not allow them to mention by any other name, than "the fountain," "the star." It was a variation only of the original phrase, and the An may be rejected, while the meaning of the word is unaltered.

Antares. Arez was a name of the Sun, (Bryant ;) and An, as we have seen, means a fountain, or a star. "The Star of the Sun" is the signification; referring to the most accursed star or sign passed by the Sun in his course through the Zodiac. The word is unchanged if you take away either the prefix An, the affix Arez, or both; and the letter T, changed from the Chaldee D, remains.

Thus are Antares, Dan, and Otho, con

vertible terms: and from the known meaning of one, we ascertain the others. Antares is the Cor-Scorpii, the same as Scorpio. Dan, therefore, as Sir William has shewn, is Scorpio; and Otho is Scorpio. Q. E. D.

X. Vitellius-Sagittarius-Manasseh.

"THE sign of Sagittarius alone remains," (says Sir William Drummond) "for Manasseh if I be right in my former conjectures, I cannot be mistaken in this: but having already written so much on the standards of the tribes, I shall leave it to the ingenuity of my readers, to supply what I have left unsaid on the subject of Manasseh."

I beg to be allowed the same privilege. I shall leave it to the ingenuity of my readers to discover why Vitellius is Sagitta

rius; merely observing the name is derived from, to cast down, as the archer Sagittarius casts down his arrows of a dew, mist, or snow in the winter.

X. Vespasian-Zebulon-Capricorn.

I CANNOT but regret, that Sir William Drummond has placed so much dependence on Kircher, who is referred to as an authority in almost every page. This author

a most fanciful writer; voluminous, incorrect, and led astray by a vivid imagination. I refer to Evelyn's Memoirs, vol. Ist, to the biographical dictionaries, and the list of his works, for further information. Among other sublime productions, he wrote the Mundus Subterraneus; and he has

been even suspected of forging, or inventing facts and circumstances, to complete an hypothesis, or continue a narration, whenever his materials were deficient.