IN THE MOSAICAL LAW, the pig is condemned as an unclean beast, and consequently interdicted to the Israelites, as unfit for human food.

468, for his censure of Brydone's 'anti-mosaical remark.' 'Malo me Galatea petit, lasciva puella.' 'My Phillis me with pelted apples plies.

The Mosaical Rods. 9.

THE MOSAICAL RODS.

"Let us go there at once, and make trial of the mosaical rods.

The mosaical rods had continued motionless.

"It seems that the sexton had found a chest of treasure buried in Saint Faith's, and being haunted by the idea that some one was carrying it off, he suddenly sprang out of bed, and rushed to the church, where, sure enough, Mr. Lilly, Mr. Quatremain, the Earl of Rochester, and Sir George Etherege, having, by the help of mosaical rods, discovered this very chest, were digging it up.

"But why destroy the poor minor canon?" "Because I want to get hold of the treasure discovered by the help of the Mosaical rods in Saint Faith's, which by right belonged to my husband, and which is now in Mr. Quatremain's possession," replied Judith.

Skeptical Views of the Mosaical Chronology.

The change which he had required two thousand years to produce was here accomplished suddenly, and the whole argument by which he had arrayed himself against the Mosaical chronology overturned.

Mr. F. visited me, and directed my attention to the Mosaical geology, or account of the creation, which he thinks the pride of science has sadly misunderstood. 27th.

MORTIMER, Dr., Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, ii. 268, n. 2. MOSAICAL CHRONOLOGY, i. 366.