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They are are laid to have civilifed Greece, more than any other 

 people* : And, among other Egyptian arts, they introduced in- 

 to Greece the ufe of thofe antient letters, which from them were 

 called Pelafgic, and were ufed by the Greeks before they got an 

 alphabet from Cadmus, which they ufed in latter times, but, of 

 thefe migrations from Arcadia I have treated at great length in the 

 appendix above referred to. I will, therefore, in the next chapter, 

 proceed to treat of a migration of the Egyptian arts to a country 

 veiy much more diftant than any I have mentioned, I mean India, 

 and which, if it be true, muft put an end to every doubt, of the E- 

 gyptians having carried civility and arts to the other countries I 

 have mentioned. 



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* See vol. I. of Origin of Language p. 6^6. of 2d edition. 



