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called the Egyptians as well as other nations, barbarians ; and fo 

 the Egyptians called them, for this reafon, as Herodotus tells us*, 

 that they fpoke a language different from theirs; and it is in 

 this fenfe that Homer has ufed the word, when, fpeaking of a peo- 

 plt who fought at Trov, he fays they were ^a^^u^o^uvoi \, 



And thus I think I have proved, that Egypt was, of all the coun- 

 tries we have heard of, the moft proper for the invention of Ian* 

 guage, and of arts and fciences» 



* Herod, lib. 2. cap, 158a- 

 t Iliad, 2. V. 867, . 



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