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Greeks and Romans till later times : I mean the divifion into weeks; 

 •which was carried by Ofiris into India, whereit is at this day in ufe; 

 and, what is very remarkable, the feven days of the week are in India 

 not only confecrated to the feven planets, but each day to the fame 

 planet as among us. But this divifion of time was for many ages 

 only known to ihe Egyptians, Jews, and Indians ; but not to the 

 Greeks till latter times, as Dion Caflius informs us ; and from them 

 we got it. I will only add further upon this fubje£l, that this fo 

 lingular divifion of time, which was not founded in the neceffities 

 of life, like the other divifions that I have mentioned, but took its 

 rife from the religion of the Egyptians, who, as Herodotus tells us, 

 confecrated every day to fome deity or another, being ufed in In- 

 dia, is a proof I think demonftrativej if there were no other, that 

 the Egyptians were in India. But of this, I fhall fay a great deal 

 more in the fequel of this work. 



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