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tbe cTties were built, and without which the country could not have been inhabited. 

 — The fecond great work of art in Egypt, was the Lake of Msris ; — a moft ufeful work, 

 — of wonderful circumference and depth. — The third great work of Egypt, was the 

 Labyrinth. — The fourth, the Pyramids, — the la/} of the great works of Egypt, as He- 

 rodotus has arranged them, but fuch, that, if they had not been ftill extant, we 

 could hot have believed in the other wonders of Egypt. — The greateft work of art a- 

 mong the Egyptians, was their Government, — the fubjecl of wliich was Alen, and 

 not materials fuch as flone and brick. — In this they exceeded all the world. — All 

 thefe arts, joined with their prodigious numbers, and the arts and fciences they in- 

 vented, make them the moft wonderful people on earth. — Of the prcfent ftate of 

 E^ypt, — wonderfully changed for the worfe, — firft, as to the numbers of the people. 

 — The antient E^vptian R.ice not to be found in Egypt: — ^So that the nation may be 

 faid to be annihilated. — Inftead of being the moft fruitful country in the world, not 

 able to maintain the few inhabitants that are in it : And, inftead of being ttie heal- 

 thieft country in the world, it is now the feat of difeafe. Page 245 



CHAP. XIIL 



Recapitulation of what has been faid in the former chapter. — The fubjefl of the origin 

 Oi the arts and fciences continued. — The art ot government invented in Egypt, and 

 brought to perfeftion. — Of the neceflary arts of life there invented. — Language alfo 

 will be fliown to have been there invented. — ^The ufe of fire difcovered in Ej;ypt ; — 

 and the ufe of it in making glafs, which was unknown to the Greeks and Romans. — 

 Glafs coloured like precious ftones, alfo known to them ; — likewife the hatching of 

 chickens without incubation. — Of the art of mufic: — It was pratlifed in Egypt for the 

 beft purpofes:- — As it was praftifed there, it was alfo there invented.^-Tlie-' praftice 

 of it very antient in Egypt. — It was invented under the Dasmon Kings, — and was 

 preferved with the greateft care, and no innovation of it iutiered. — For this purpole 

 there muft have been a notation of it. — An art of mufic of very difficult invention 

 being the application of numbers to^ the tones of the human voice or of inftruments, 

 - — a fliort account given of the difficulty of the invention — It could only have been 



invented in a country fuch as Egypt, where arts and fciences were cultivated. ^Tue 



Greek mufic no better than the mufic of the Hurons, till Pythagoras brought the art 



into Greece from Eg^'pt. — From thence they only got the Diatonic Scale. To tliis 



they added the Chromatic and the Enharmonic. — This refinement of mufic not fo 

 proper for the ufeful purpofes to wliich the Egyptians applied it. — The Greeks had 



alfo modes of mufic, fuch as the Dorian, the Phrygian, and Lydian ^The \pritine 



art more conneftcd wiili language than mufic. — It is language not pronounced. A 



wcrhderful art, by which founds are made vifible. — a progrefs in the writin<T art as in 



every 



