nothing but an (h) now it is scarce possible that in a word of many syllables that should fall out by chance_. 2. _Their countenance discovers it, for as Procopious_ I. C. _saith, they are not blacke, or foule in their countenance, as the_ Auns _are among whom they live, but the only white men of that Country; that it may evidently appeare that they came from some other place thither_. 3. _Their manners agree, for the same Author saith, that they are not_ Nomades, _as the_ Huns _who are unconstant in their dwelling, and eate up one place after another; but they inhabite one certaine place. Besides, they observe Law and equity, as the_ Romans; _and have pollicy, being well governed by their Prince: both which is rare among their neighbour Nations. Also they doe not lay abroad their dead, as the_ Barbarians _doe, but they decently cover them with earth. Lastly, their jornalls doe testifie that many_ Jewes _live there, especially in the mountaines, who have searched to the mid-land countries of East_-Asia, R. Benjamin, _f._ 23. _From thence_ (_the coast of_ Persia) _is 28. dayes journey to the mountaines_ Nisebor, _which are neare the river_ Gozan. _The Israelites which come from thence into_ Persia, _say, that there in the Cities of_ Nisebor, _are four Tribes_ (_sc._ Dan, Zebulon, Asor, Naphtali,) _of the first captivity, which_ Shalmaneser _the_ Assyrian _carried thither, as in_ 2 King. 17.6. _he brought them to_ Habor, _and_ Halah, _the river_ Gozan _and the Mountaines of_ Media. _The compasse of that Country is twenty dayes journey; and they possesse Cities, and Castles upon the Mountaines, by one side of which, runs the river_ Gozan; _neither are they subject to the Nations, but have a Governour over them, by name_ R. Joseph Amarkela _a Levite, and there are among them some who study wisdome. They sow, and reap; yea they wage war to the Country of_ Cuth. _In_ the same place _Ortelius_ adds, in the Country _Tabor_, or _Tibur_ (which _Solinus_ commends, in _c._ 49.) they dwell a people, who though they have lost the holy writings, they obey one King, who came into _France_, in Ann. 1530. and spoke with _Francis_ the first, was burnt at _Mantua_ by the command of the Emperour _Charles_ the fifth, because that he did privately teach Judaism to Christian Princes, and to the Emperour himselfe. _Boterus_ saith the same in his relations of the farthest part of _Tartary_. But both these were deceived; for _Rabbinus Josephus Cohon_, a man worthy to be beleeved, relates this more truly in his Chronology, saying, that the _Jew_ who came out of that Country, was the brother of the King of the _Israelites_, was called _David_ the _Reubenite_; and having seene _India_ in his passage, he came to _Portugal_, where he converted the Kings Secretary to Judaism, who fled from thence with him, taking the name of _Selomoh Molho_; he in short time was so well versed in the Law, yea in the _Cabala_ it selfe, that he made all _Italy_ admire him.