This word _Frisian_ puts us in mind of the British stories of _Trinobantum_ being _Troja nova_, built by the wandering Trojans: so deep rooted among our ancestors is the notion of a Trojan original. I know several foundations that may be assigned for this notion: one seems to come from the utmost source of antiquity, the founder of the British nation, APHER, grandson of ABRAHAM: for which I can bring very large proofs, not so much pertaining to this place. He is the Greek Phryxus, a near relation to Melicerta or Melcartus, the Tyrian Hercules: he founded the Phrygians; he gave name to Africa, and Britain; so that _Phrygii_, _Frisones_, and _Bryges_, _Britones_, _Brigantes_, are all words in different pronunciation meaning the same. Of it I say no more at present, than that it further illustrates my opinion of the _Trinobantes_ being most ancient, an aboriginal people here; and that their city was fenced about, whether with a wall, or with a _vallum_, and ditch, I cannot pretend to say, any more than when it was first called _Londinium_: and it is not my humour to carry conjectures beyond what they will reasonably bear. But I think I am not distant from truth, when I judge the _Novii_ to be the same as the _Nubæ_ of Africa, on the west side the Nile; neighbour to the _Troglodites_, says Strabo: these were neighbours too to the Arabians; the Red sea between them: natural navigators they must needs be. And Josephus makes the children of ABRAHAM by Keturah to be settled by him in _Trogloditis_, and Arabia the Happy, upon the Red sea. _Antiq._ i. 15. The colony of these people at Cadiz is always said to come from the Red sea. Pliny mentions the _Nubæi_, a people of _Arabia Deserta_. Further, _Novantæ_ are a people in the west of Scotland, now Galloway. _Novantum promontorium_, the Mull, _Chersonesus_, and _Novaritæ_; and the city _Novantia_, north of Severus’s wall. The river Nid, in Scotland, is called _Novius_. No reason to think either one or the other of Belgic original, but undoubtedly a colony of our _Trinobantes_. Josephus, in his xiv. of the antiquities of the Jews, gives us the decree of the senate and people of Pergamus, in favour of the Jews; setting forth, “Since the Romans, following the conduct of their ancestors, undertake dangers for the common safety of mankind, and are ambitious to settle their confederates and friends in happiness, and in firm peace—” The decree proceeds as at large set forth by Josephus, and well worthy perusal; concluding, “That the Jews would remember, their ancestors were friendly to the Jews, even in the days of ABRAHAM, who was the father of the Hebrews; as we have also found it set down in our public records.” Many useful observations may be made from this testimony.