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OMNIANA.

be discovered or not, the Friar cannot tell.

When God made dresses for Adam and Eve, how did he get the skins of which those dresses were made, says my Lord the Admiral, observing that at that time no beasts had yet been killed. Why, replies the Friar, perhaps he made skins by themselves on purpose; or perhaps he did not actually clothe our first parents himself, but only gave them direc-

    two mountains, where Moses and Aaron lie buried. And in the night time a cloud, much like fire, covered the place, even as it did of old; the glory of God can never be away from the name of God. Therefore God gave unto Jeremiah the grace that he should finish this mystery, and become companion with Moses and Aaron, who are jolned together unto this day, for Jeremiah came of the line of the Priests,"
    The Monks of Mount Sinai show an inscription at the foot of Mount Horeb, in unknown characters, which they affirm to be this very writing of Jeremiah. Pier della Valle had geographical doubts upon the subject when he saw it, but afterwards the authority of St. Epiphanius induced him to change his opinion, and incline to believe the tradition.