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They are to be found in all mercantile towns and great marts both in Africa, Asia, and Europe, the dominions of England, of the Spaniard and French excepted, and as their persons, so their profession is despicable, being for the most part but brokers everywhere. Among other places they are allowed to be in Rome her- self near St Peter's chair, for they advance trade wheresoever they come, with their banks of money, and so are permitted as necessary evils ; but put the case the whole nation of t...he Jews now living were united into one collective body, yet, according to the best conjecture and exactest computation that I could hear made by the knowingest men, they would not be able to people a country bigger than the seventeen provinces. Those that are dispersed now in Christendom, and Turkey, are the remnants only of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with some Levites who returned from Babylon with Zerub- babel. The common opinion is, that the other ten are utterly lost, but they themselves fancy that they arc in India a mighty nation, environed with stony rivers, which always cease to run their course on their Sabbath, from whence they expect their Messiah, who shall in the fulness of time overrun the world with fire and sword, and re-establish them HOWELL'S FAMILIAR LETTERS 115 in a temporal glorious estate.
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