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CHAP. XII. 



Compart/on of the prefait State of Egypt ivitb its ard'tent State. — 

 The change more for the worfe than in any other country. — /;/ He- 

 rodotus^ s time^ it ivas a country more -wonderful than all the other 

 countries upon earth. — Of its climate, and its river. — 7 he climate 

 not liable to excefs either of hot or cold, dry or tvet. — The changes 

 of thefc produce many difeafes among men. — The river more "wonder- 

 ful than the climate. — // has created a country in Egypt, — and 

 makes this country ivonderfully fruitful by r€ne'wing the foil of it, — 

 Without that, the land of Egypt could not have la/led or maintained 

 Jo many people. — -Examples to prove this. — The Nile made agricul- 

 ture in Egypt a very eafy art, which is fo laborious in otljer coun- 

 tries, — // deliver ed them from the reproach of feeding upon dung. — 

 The river, befides, yeildtd many plants of different kinds, upon 

 •which the inhabitants of the marfhy part of Egypt lived. — The land 

 of Egypt fertile as -well as the water. — It produced wheat and bar- 

 ley which grew wild there, and no where elfe. — Of the works of 

 art in Egypt.'-^The in^ and greatefl work of that kind, the mounds 

 of earth, upon ■'which the cities were built, and without which the 

 country could nst-Atave been inhabited, —The fecond great "work of art 

 in Egypt, was the Lake of Maris ',~a moji tfeful work,--of -wonder- 

 J'ul circumference ana^ depth.'— The third great work of Egypt, 'was 

 the Labyrinth. — The fourth, the Pyramids, — the lajl of the great 

 works of Egypt, as Herodotus has arranged thejn, but fuch, that, 

 if they had not been fill extant, we could not have believed in the 

 ■Either wonders of Egypt. — The greatefl work of art among the E- 

 .gyptians^ was their Government, — -the fubje^ of which was Men, 



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