Α NEW ANALYSIS OF CHRONOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY AND PROPHECY : IN WHICH THEIR ELEMENTS ARE ATTEMPTED TO BE EXPLAINED, HARMONIZED, AND UPON SCRIPTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES; TENDING TO REMOVE THE IMPERFECTION AND DISCORDANCE OF BY THE REV. WILLIAM HALES, D.D. RECTOR OF KILLESANDRA, IN IRELAND; AND FORMERLY FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE publication of this volume, though printed upwards of a twelvemonth, has been delayed by the preparation of a various and copious GENERAL INDEX; which the Author was induced to undertake, by the advice of some judicious friends, and the recommendation of his respectable booksellers, seconding his own earnest desire to render the work as perfect, and convenient, as possible. During this tedious and laborious employment, but not less useful to the Author, than to the Public; he carefully revised, compared, and scrutinized the whole, and the parts of the work. This enabled him to detect several literal errors, that had glided either into his manuscripts, or into the printing; to correct several ambiguities of expression, inconsequential reasonings, insufficiently guarded assertions, and some material mistakes of calculation, &c. quæ parum cavit Natura humana; aliquando dormitans opere in longo; and to recast entirely, or new model, some important articles, upon further lights and maturer consideration. In this critical, and unsparing review, he was greatly assisted by the learned remarks and acute strictures of some kind and candid friends, on the foregoing volumes; especially the Rev. Archdeacon Churton, and the Rev. John Moore, |