28o ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book III. 



BOOK III. 



Of the Tranfmiflion of Arts and Sciences from Egypt 



to other Countries. 



CHAP. I. 



Egypt fa fituated as to be Jit for communicating its Arts to matiy coun- 

 tries of the Earth.'— It communicated by land with Africa and A- 

 fia. — In Africa their Arts do not appear to have made any great 

 progrefs. — The Lybians quite a Savage People. — They f poke a very 

 barbarous Language^ -which they may have formed from hearing 

 the Egyptian Language fpoken. — To Afta the Egyptian Language 

 and Arts may have been carried by Sefflris, who overran even the 

 northern parts of Afia^ and efabli/ljed a colony at Colchis upon the 

 Euxine Sea. — The Jews learned their Language from Egypt ; — 

 but it was a corrupt dialect of the Egyptian which they fpoke. — 

 This proved from what paffed in Egypt when Jacob and his fami- 

 ly came there. — They Icarricd alfo the writing Art in Egypt ^ and 

 wrote like the Egyptians from right to left. — From Chald^ea the 

 Egyptian Language proceeded to other parts of Afta. — The Art of 

 Language, though of more difficult invention than any other Jrt, 

 is of very eafty communication. — Of the progrefs of the Egyptian 

 Arts from Egypt to Europe. — Sefojlris, from Colchis^ might have 



gone 



