Reflections on the Zodiacs found in Upper Egypt. 371 



Example. 

 Section 52i 



Let every thing be as before fe&ion 30 ; alfo IW = 48 



inches, for R let 01 = 9 feet, and for R ; let 01 = 12 feet; 



therefore * — 17 22', and k' = 9 24'. Now as OH = 



±1 tang. 13 24' - 0-6806.7, then is s = 0*05672. From 



thefe and the preceding data we obtain, 



R £ i- (m + n) A P cos, a 4- (P + p + p J ) fin. & _ 



cos. x 4- m A fin. x " O ^ 5 



(i P 4- p) cos. a fin. /3 cos. x fin. J, fee. (£ — x) 



j .— rs 117*105 



cos. x + ffiA ten* x . f • 



( I P 4. p') cos. a fin. 3 tan?. •» 



Li L.L — . _JI *_Z F 111*453 



cos. x + w A fin. x ^^ 



ft = 354*054 



cos. x' 4- p * «'■• t 



(P -f tf) cos. a fin. B cos. x ; fin. $, fee. (&— x) 



-i ' — ~ — — -. - == 2I6-OQ2 



COS. K 7 4" /^ ^ " n « * 



R' = 332*147 

 In the example fection 30, we had R — R' = 16*071, but 

 here R — K = 21*907. 



LXII. Reflections on the Zodiacs found by the French in 

 Upper Egypt, By Mr. Deluc *. 



T. 



H E principal arguments oppofed to the authenticity of 

 what Mofes relates in regard to the hiftory of the deluge, and 

 the period when it took place, are drawn from the fuppofed 

 antiquity of our continents, which is carried back, without 

 bounds, beyond that epoch. This opinion has its fource in 

 idea rather than in obfervation 5 for facts which have been 

 carefully obferved (how, on the contrary, that the continents 

 We inhabit have no older date than that fixed by the chrono- 

 logy of Mofes fince the flood. For the proofs of this truth 

 I refer to Lettres Phyfiqucs et Morales fur V Htfloire de la 

 Terre et de V Homme, and to thofe fur I ti'ijloire Phyjique de 

 la Terre) or Lettres Geologiques, where are collected a great 

 number of facts the evidence of which cannot be contefted. 



But the project, long ago formed, of deftroying the credit 

 due to the revelation announced by the facred hiftorian, pre- 



• From the Blbl'iothcque Briiannique, No. 154. 



A a 2 vails, 



