A N A GENERAL INDEX to the Whole. Ισορίας ἀρχαίας ἐξέρχεθαι μὴ κατανοει· ἐν αὐταῖς γὰρ ευρήσεις Bafil. Imp. ad Leon. fil. Printed for T. OSBORNE, in Gray's-Inn; A. MILLAR, in AN Universal History, FROM THE Earliest Account of Time. VOL. V. BOOK I. CHAP. X. The Hiftory of the Medes. SECT. I. The defcription of Media. HE country before us, once the feat of a potent Name, empire, derives its name from Madai, the third fituation, fon of Japhet, as is plain from Scripture, where &c. the Medes are conftantly called Madai (A). It was bounded, according to Ptolemy, on the north by part of a a DAN. V. 28. ibid. vi. 8, 12, 15. ibid. viii. 20. ESTн. i. 14, 18, 19. ibid. x. 2. See before, vol. i. p. 379. (A) Among profane authors, fome derive the name of Me the 3a dia from one Medus, the fon of |