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branch of duty in which they were daily ex-
ercised, viz: the female department. For
example, suppose there were about as ma
ny women as men, which in most countries
and amongst all nations of people there are
about the same. Now if from this moety
we dcduc. for unmarried females, 100000
there will remain 800, 900 married. And as
every woman bearing child, had in few
weeks thereafter, to pay visit to the priest
and make an atonement for the sin which
nature or NATURES God had brought upon
her, she was compelled by law also to take
lamb without blemish, as an atonement it
she was OF ability so to do; if not, two turtle
doves or two young pigeons, to present to
the high priest, for the necessary enquiry he
might make into her state and condition, and
for the benediction he might bestow upon
her.


!. We decline making further investigation
into the causes of all the visits which the law
compelled females to observe yet from no


y writ inferences may be drawn to warrant
one i'll saying that the perquisites arising TO
the priesthood from the female departments
on those accounts amount, in the whole, to


(at least) 2,5oO,ooo pair of turtle doves, or


young pigeons, annually.