CONTENTS. 



pie. — As to health, the Egyptians the Lealthieft of all civilifed nations ; — ufed Phy- 

 fic, not only to cure difeafes, but to prevent them. — As to morals— thefe better in 

 Egypt than in other countries, becaufe they were the moft religious of men, — and had 

 not thofe temptations to vice, which other nations have by wealth and by indigence. 

 — Land their only property ; which could not be accumulated in the hands of indi- 

 viduals. — As to numbers, thcfe were wonderful in Egypt. — A particular account of 

 the number of Cities under Amafis and Ptolemy Lagus. — This number of Cities more 

 to be depended on than the numbering of Men. — Reafons given for the wonderfal 



increafe of Men in Egypt All marrying, and having chudren.— All children 



brought up at the fmallcft expence. — And children not dying under age, as fo many 

 die among us. — One extraordinary reafon for the increafe of people, was the addi- 

 tion to the country of the Delta. — Tliis muft have added very much to the numbers 

 of the people, as well as to the increafe of learning. — The Egyptian Government 

 thus proved to be the beft that ever exifted ; and the moft fitted for the cultivation 

 of arts and fciences. — ^The duration of the Government of Egypt, a proof of its ex- 

 cellency. — No changes made in it during a prodigious number of years. — No difputes 

 about the fucceffion to tlie Crown, till the Greeks canie among them. — The Ethio- 

 pian Kings to be confidered as of the fame country. — Proof of the perfeftion of the 

 Government of Egypt, is the duration of the fame Government iu India, notwith- 

 ftanding all the ccjpquefts that have been made in that country. — People in India di- 

 vided in the flime manner as in Egypt. — The Hindoos of India, a very happy peo- 

 ' pie. — Antient Egypt to be coniidered as preferved hi India. Page 2:0 



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Comparifon of the prefent State of Eg)'pt with its antient State. — ^The change more fof 

 the worfe than in any other country. — In Herodotus's time, it was a country more 

 wonderful than all the other countries upon the earth. — Of its climate, and its river. 

 — The climate not liable to excefs either of hot or cold, dry or wet. — The changes 

 of thefe protluce many difeafes among men. — The river more wonderful than the 

 climate. — It has created a country in Egypt, — and makes this country wonderfully 

 fruitful by renewing the foil of it. — Without that, the land of Egypt could not have 



""iafted or maintained fo many people. — Examples to prove this. — ^The Nile made ag- 

 riculture in Egypt a very eafy art, which is fo laborious in other countries. — It de- 

 livered them from the reproach of feeding upon dung. — ^The river, befides, yielded 

 many plants of different kinds, upon which the inhabitants of the marfby part of 

 Egypt lived. — The land of Egypt fertile as well as the water.-- .It produced wheat 

 and barley wliich grew wild there, and no where elfe. — Of the works of art in E- 

 gypt. — The JirJ} and greateft work of that k'nd, the mounds of earth, upon which 

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