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CHAP. XIII. 



Recapitulation of what has been /aid in the former chapter. — Thefub- 

 je£l of the origin of the arts and fciences co?itinued. — The art of go- 

 vernment invented in Egypt, and brought to perfection. — Of the 

 neceffary arts of life there invented. — Language alfo will be fhown 

 to have been there invented. — The ufe offre difcovered in Egypt; — 

 and the ufe of it in making glafs, which was unknown to the Greeks 

 and Romans. — Glafs coloured like precious flones, alfo known to 

 them ; — Ukewife the hatching of chickens without incubation. — Of 

 the art of mufic : — It was praElifed in Egypt for the befl purpofes : 

 — ^s it was praBifed there , it ivas alfo there invented. — The prac- 

 tice of it very antient in Egypt. — // was invented under the Da- 

 / mon Ki?igs, — and was preferved with the greatefi care, and no in- 

 novation of it ftffered.—For this purpofe, there mujl have been a 

 notation of it. — An art of mufic of very dificult invention, being 

 the application of numbers to the tones of the human voice or of in- 

 fruments, — a fhort account given of the difficulty of the invention. 

 — // could only have been invented in a country fuch as Egypt, where 

 arts and fciences were cultivated. — The Greek mufic no betttr than 

 the mufic of the Hiirons, till Pythagoras brought the art into Greece 

 from Egypt. — From thence they only got the Diatonic Scale. — To 

 this they added the Chromatic and the Enharmonic. — This refne- 

 ment of mufic not fo proper for the ufeful purpofes to ivhich the E- 

 gyptians applied it. — The Greeks bad alfo modes of mufic, fuch as 

 the Dorian, the Phrygian, and Lydian — The writing art more con- 

 nected with language than mufic. — It is language not pronounced. 

 — A wonderful art, by which founds are made vifible, — a progrefs 



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