CONTENTS, 



CHAP. IV. 



Of the necdEty of Arts being invented in Egypt — Other Arts mentioned as invented 

 in Egypt, befides the Art of Language. — And, firft Agriculture, by which only Men 

 could fubfift in the fame place in coniiderable numbers, and fo have a clofe commu- 

 nication together. — Before tliis Art was invented, the Egyptians ate one another j 

 _and fo did the Greeks. — ^This Art came from Egypt to other Countries, and parti- 

 cularly to Attica,r— The Art alfo of making Drink, as well as Food, for Men, in- 



_-. vented in Egj'pt, viz. the Art of Fermentationy by which both. Wine and Ale are pro- 

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CHAP. V. 



Of'the invention of Clothes ^Thefe not neceflary in the Natural Life.— The firft 



clothing among Men were Skins. — ^The country of Egypt maintaining fo many Men, 

 could not likewife maintain fo many Beafts as were neceflary for furnifliing Skins to 

 Cloth fo many People. — ^Therefore Clothing by Linen invented; — alfo by Cloth made 

 of Wool , — for both thefe Clothings, the Arts of Spinning and Weaving were necef- 

 fary.— The ufe of Linen went from Egypt to few countries. — ^To the Eg)-ptians there- 

 fore we owe not only our Bread, our Wine, and our Beer, but mtr Clothes. — The 

 Egyptians muft have difcovered the ufe of Fire for the practice of thofe Arts. — This 

 difcovery no: made by all nations in the firft ages of Civility. — Of the Art of Build- 

 in" invented in Egypt : — Metallurgy ni^ceflary for the practice of that Art. — The E- 

 gyptians made the fubjeft of their Art, not only every thing on the earth, and in the 

 air and water, but what was in the bowels of the earth. — The way that Men were fup- 

 plied with inftruments of peircing hard fubftances, before the invention of JNIetals. — 

 Divifion of Time into certain portions neceflary in Civilifed Life. — The firft divifion 

 of time into Days, that is, the interval from one rifing of the Sun to his riling again. 



_|j —The next portion of Time, obferved by Men, was from one new Moon to another, 

 called from thence a Month. — This the only divillon of Time known to barbyrous 

 naj-ions. — The Solar Year firft difcovered in Egypt. — That year, as firit ufed by the 



, . . Greeks, and Romany, very irregular. — The Romans got the irregularity of their year 

 corrected from Egypt. — What was wanting to make that correftion perfeflly cccu- 

 rate, fupplied by Pope Gregory XlI.~Oi the divifion of time into Weeks. — This 

 invented in Egypt, and by the Egyptians carried to India. — From the Eijjptiahs it 

 came to Greece, and from, Greeqe. to us. ""p^'if44 



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