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from the latter. If it be correct, as learned men have alleged, that tradition is adulterated after the lapse of two hundred years, & assumes the character of fable, then it is deducible from the fulness? & particularity of their traditions when first made known to us, between 1606 & 1690, that they were within two hundred years from the period when the original was lost, from whence the traditions were taken." 371.

"The Huns, when they fled from the Volga, in the year of our Lord 405, being then identified with the Igors, or at least having the latter politically incorporated with them, were obliged to proceed to the Icy ocean, the countries to the west being all then settled." 373.

"Nor? is it left to reasoning, founded upon the existing circumstances of the world, to show us, that the Igours, when they removed from the Volga, in the year of our Lord 405, went to the Icy ocean, & the north of Siberia: for we have express? information of the fact from authentic history: (b Gibbon 137.) About the year 454, "the Igours of the north, issuing? from the cold Siberian regions of the north, which produce the most valuable furs, spread themselves over the desert as far as the unknown & Caspian gates, & finally extinguished the empire of the Huns." - 374.

"And there they did not remain long enough to lose their huge stature by the intense