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pear to have made any great progrefs. — The Lybians quite a Savage People. — They 

 jpoke a very barbarous Languagi^ which they gjay, have formed fro.n hearing the 

 Egyptian language fpoken. — To Alia the Egyptian Laiiguage and Arts may have 

 heeu carried by Scforiris,- who ove.-rpn ejv^i, :t3(§f^!^':;^yra,->p.3ris,.qf .Afia, and .efia- 

 -faljllied a! colony at Ojlchis-upon-the i;j^}aft:^e^:-r7-^he3ji?,v^. l};a^ue<jl tlieir Langps^ge 

 from Egypt, — but it was a corrapt-.di^Je^T: f)f ?.TU^-i^gyptiaix_,Ji^l|j^h .Jhey liioke.— This 

 -proved from what paffed in Egypt when jac^'t" and his iiiujily came there. — ^They 

 ■learned alio the writing Art in Egypt) aii4 '•^X^tvl'i^ the Egy.piiSns frpm right to 

 left. — Prom Chaldxea the Egyptian Langu-i^ fSOese4c4?l^ pi^er.parts of .Alia.-r^The 



-.Art of Language, though . of .ii)05fidjtfficija[ijieYSp^W-JWi'\jWJ-at|^?r|H^|^.,J^ ^9^y 

 eafy communication.- — Of tji.? progrels of tiif^jEgypuan.^ts^pqa. Egypt ^p^^iirpge. 

 ^-Seioftris, from Colchis, rnigiit iiave gone ir;,Iuv.d. ta.jTajjiee,, 4\aiei;e he, yras.: — 

 But the eafier and Ihorter paflage from Egypt tc ^-'^"9pe,.was,p/^jb^a,-r-:Tp^">ravu^atipn 



' the Egyptians had, the iiie in ,tfee, pajEeii tiiap^— The uea^pll,Ifl3iid in ^ the, Mediter- 



i ranenn Sea to Egypt was Crete.-^Thither the 'E^;^;.\:.n Arts firit went, being intro- 

 duced by the /a'« Daciyle and tlie Cuntes. — i,:.!!: iieiigion came frpm Egypt to 

 Crtte, proved by the Sainothracian and. Eleaii,-j.i-. I'tlyiieries, being well known 

 there. — Saturn the firft Kjng of Crete, being a.;:i.runed by his gcin, Jupiter, carried 



: ifrom thence tile Egyptian Arts to Italy., and.niide a. _i'atur,nian agie there.— Jup^er 

 rnied in Greece as weil as m Crete, — introduce i tatre the Egyptian Arts. — iliefc 

 Arts brought inta Greece more uircccly by C - froai £.^\y^- — The cccciliiv of 



Migrauon from io Imall a Country as Egjji i-^fiJ^V'^i^-— y^i.thetwo.^Jplonies 



whicti came trom Etjypc, and fonneu ine iiat.jii6 oi .Aihenians and Arcadians : 



Thefe the two moft anticyit nations ol Greece,— from Aicadia came a Colonv under 



Oenotrus, that Icttled m Italy, and aiiovher under Evaiioer -From Arcadia came 



the Felafgi, who introduced a great dm. t civility and Arts .into Greece, particu- 

 larly the Writing Art : — liui the Egy^-iians tarried their Arts to a Country very >e- 

 mote, viz. India. — This tlie lubjcci o\ auotner chapter. fage 280 



CHAP. II. 



The Cmilarity of Polity, Cuftoms, and Manners, betwixt nations fo remote as Egypt 

 and India, wonderful, and without example, — ^not to be found even in nations con- 

 tiguous. — The firft refemblance is, in a thing lingular to both nations, — ^viz. the divi- 

 fion of the people into dalles, according to their fevei-al occupations. — This divilioa 

 in India, more accurate and minute than in Egypt. — Another Angularity in which 

 the two nations agree is, the veneration of the Cow. — Of the divilion of Time into 

 Months and Years; — the fame in India as it was in Egypt, and is among us. — The 

 iSxifion into Weeks hot necefTary for any piirpofes of life, yet obferved both in. India. 



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