[The following communication from a very competent authority,
and the very passage quoted by "PHILOBODIUS" himself, quite
justify the non-publication of Zachary's doggrel.]
_Zachary Boyd_ (No. 19. p. 298.).--Your notice of Zachary Boyd, and his
extraordinary paraphrase of the Bible in the College at Glasgow, has
reminded me of my having examined that strange work, and found ample
cause for its not being published, though a sufficient sum was
bequeathed for that purpose. The whole doggrel is only calculated to
bring ridicule and contempt upon the Scriptures; but there are, besides,
passages such as refer to Job's "Curse God, and die;" to Jeshuram waxing
fat; to Jonah in the whale's belly; and other parts, which utterly unfit
the MS. for decent perusal.