FLAX, OR LINE. 1}).) 



in profane history by the appellation of 

 Men£s, assumed the style of king, and built 

 the town of Memphis. His wife Lsis, whom 

 some suppose to be the same as Io, is said to 

 have taught the art of agriculture, and em- 

 ployed herself diligently in cultivating the 

 earth, for which she was deified, and the 

 worship of lsis became universal in Egypt. 

 The priests of this goddess were clothed 

 in linen garments. 



About 300 years after the flood, Abram 

 and his family went into Egypt to avoid the 

 famine ; and on their return the following 

 year, the book of Genesis notices, that Lot, 

 the nephew of Abram, had flocks and herds, 

 and tents. 



Pharaoh arrayed Joseph in vestures of fine 

 linen ; and when Moses called down the 

 plague of hail upon Egypt, it destroyed the 

 flax. 



" And the flax and the barley was smitten ; 

 for the barley was in the ear, and the flax 

 was boiled."* 



That the art of weaving had attained a 

 wonderful perfection in Egypt in those days, 

 we learn both from profane and sacred 

 history. 



* Exodus, c. ix. 31 . 

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