at the beginning of the Hejiric year 727, and that he reigned as lawful Sultan 26 of their years. If, then, he died at the beginning of the Hejiric year 727, and if he began to reign on the first day of the tenth month of the Hejiric year 700, he will have reigned somewhat more than 26 Turkish years and 3 months.

But, in thus obtaining the true commencement of the reign of Othman, we obtain also (unless I greatly mistake) the true epoch of the liberation of the four angels, and thence the true epoch of the beginning of the second woe. On the principles, then, which have been stated above, I venture to conclude, that the sixth trumpet, which introduces the second great woe, began to sound on the 9th day of June in the year 1301 of the Christian era.

(3.) Having now obtained the epoch of the commencement of the second woe, we may proceed to calculate the time of its expiration.

The period of its continuance, as we have seen above, is a prophetic day and month and year : and this period, as we have also seen, is abstractedly capable of being estimated as equal, either to 391 natural years, or to 396 natural years and 3 months ; according as we suppose the prophetic year, specified in the prediction, to contain 360 prophetic days or 365 prophetic days and a quarter.

According, then, to the shorter mode of computation, if, from June 9, A. D. 1301, we reckon 391 natural years ; we shall be brought to the corresponding point of June 9, A. D. 1692, as the epoch

that the sum of a day and a month and a year, estimated as equal to 396 solar years and 3 months, comes the nearest to mathematical precision of any sum which could have been devised : for the day and the month and the year of the prediction before us, when calculated from the commencement of the reign of Othman to the fatal battle of Zenta, fall short of 396 calendar years and a quarter only by about a single week,

(4.) It may not be uninteresting to give a brief summary of the occurrences, which marked this eventful period.

In the year 1683, the Turks had certainly not ceased to be a woe to the Roman Empire : for, after overrunning Hungary, they were then actually besieging Vienna the capital of the existing representative of the Regal or Romano-Imperial head of the ten-horned wild-beast. But their affairs were destined shortly to experience an ebb. After they were compelled to retire from before Vienna by the arms of John Sobieski, a rapid series of disasters marked the now commencing decline of their Empire. The progress of the Imperialists was promoted by the number of enemies, which the court of Vienna succeeded in raising up against them. The Venetians, who had joined the alliance between the Emperor and Poland, conquered the Morea with the adjacent parts of Greece and the coast of Dalmatia : the king of Poland was induced to resume hostilities, and succoured the house of Austria by a powerful diversion : and