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years seen a congregation so universally affected. One would have imagined, every one that was present had a desire to save his soul. In the evening I preached in the High-Street at Helstone. I scarce know a town in the whole county which is so totally changed ; not a spark of that bitter enmity to the Methodists, in which the people here for many years gloried above their fellows . Going through Marazion, I was told that a large congrega- tion was waiting: So I stepped out of my chaise, and began immediately ; and we had a gracious shower. Some were cut to the heart ; but more rejoiced with joy unspeakable. In the evening I preached in the market-place at Penzance. Idesigned afterwards to meet the society; but the people were so eager to hear all they could, that they quickly filled theHouse from end to end. This is another of the towns wherein the whole stream of the people is turned, as it were, from east to west. We had a happy season, both at St. Just on Thursday Sept. 1781.1 JOURNAL. 215 evening, and in the market-place at St. Ives on Friday. Satur- day, SEPTEMBER 1. I made an end of that curious book, Dr. Parson's " Remains of Japhet." The very ingenious author has struck much light into some of the darkest parts of ancient history; and although I cannot entirely subscribe to every proposition which he advances, yet I apprehend he has suffi- ciently proved the main ofhis hypothesis ; namely,- 1. That, after the flood, Shem and his descendants peopled the greatest parts of Asia. 2. That Ham and his children peopled Africa. 3. That Europe was peopledby the two sons ofJaphet, Gomer and Magog ; the southern and south-western byGomer and his children ; and the north and the north-western by the children of Magog. 4. That the former were called Gomerians, Cimmerians, Cimbrians ; and afterwards Celtiæ, Galatæ, and Gauls ; the latter were called by the general name of Scythians, Scuiti, Scots. 5. That the Gomerians spread swiftly through the north of Europe, as far as the Cimbrian Chersonesus, (including Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and divers other countries,) and then into Ireland, where they multiplied veryearly into a considerable nation. 6. That some ages after, another part of themwho had first settled in Spain, sailed to Ire-