OP THE ORIGIN OF CHEMISTRY. 17 



ten upcn the columns, either in the holy or the 

 Egyptian tongue, \vcrc by this man tranfiated, 

 after the deluge, into Greek, and then written 

 in hieroglyphics in books, and depofitcd in the 

 mod facrcd places of the temples *. It is alledg- 

 cd by fomc, that through a mi flake of the ex- 

 trad or tranfcription, i*c TM !AK-ti/ *, is infcrt- 

 ed inilcad of ***., which indicates a ftyle of 

 \vritinj, according to the Greeks, from left to 

 right ; or more properly perhaps, inflead of 

 i<f r *xv- /<*&* viz. /,jL.r. j- : As the Greek lan- 

 guage was -as yet but imperfectly undci flood, it 

 i<? notimpoflible; for both the father and grand- 

 father of Sefoflris had fubjedcd Greece to their 

 authority. 



Two hundred and eighty years before Chrifl, 

 Mancthus dedicated to the fame king 1m \vork t 

 entitled /M*O x*afcf, in tlircc volumes, contain- 

 ing all the hiflory and arts of the Egyptians, 

 whether compiled from the columns in Scriadi- 

 ca, or from the facrcd books. Fragments only of 

 this work arc now remaining }; but iVom it Ju- 



ii lius 



In libro I. Ghronici Ecfcbii Mantthos is faid 



y .!/><"> <!*-", -' f ' /I>.ITW u 



r* KTi*A.v*i9v f. rf tiff /iA.ir<i i< r t&Jk<J 

 i^c>.Xu^ne,{, nai w'*ri >i/rt it ^ M^f * r rv AX'^ 

 fM **r,o< /l f Tr, it rof a/vrtic T* ii^-f Ai)rfrifc-. 



f Baum^artcn in Elrl. dcr Alien Gtfch. torn. I. p. u 407. 

 The Scriadic land U, by its fi^nificntion in tlc Coptic tongt:<- t 

 to be the f.imc as the land of the fun, or HtKopolius* 

 Sjncollui in clircno^r. 



