^^2 Phyfical and Mifcellaneous &c. 



The further Examination of it therefore is recommended to 

 fuch curious Perfons, as may have more Leifure and better Op- 

 portunities, than 1 had, of meafuring the feveral Periods of the 

 Inundations, the Height of the MA-e^i, the Cubit by which it is 

 divided, the Depth of the Soil, and the Quantity of Sediment 

 fucccifively left by the River. 

 Herodotiis'i Howcvcr among the many Doubts and Difficulties, that have 

 tgmagiee-hccn already mentioned, or may be hereafter raifed, upon this 

 %rl.Hip,y' Su\)}Q6\.i there will always be Room to make one very juft and im- 

 portant Obfervation ; That if Herodotus had duly confidertdthe 

 annual Increafe of the Soil and carried hack his Remarks hut a thou- 

 [and Tears hepnd the Time ς /'Myris, he could not have given the 

 leafl Credit to that long SucceJ/ion ofDynaflies ' , which make up 

 the Egyptian Hiflory. For fmce,according to his own Refleolions, 

 Eg'^p is the entire, though gradual. Gift of the Kile^ there muft 

 have been a Time (and that not long before the Period laft men- 

 tioned) when it was either of the fame barren Nature with the 

 Deferts that furround it, or elfe quite covered with Water ; and 

 confequently, there could be no habitable Country for thefe pre- 

 tended Princes to reign over. Our Hiftorian himfelf fuppofes it to 

 have been an Arm of the Sea ; and the Time, pretty nearly, 

 when it was fo, he had learnt from the E^ptians, who aiTured 

 him, that Menes % w^as the firft King, who reigned in the World ; 

 that, in his Time, all Egypt, except the Country of Thehes^vjus one 

 continued Morafs ; and that no Part of the prefent Land then ap- 

 peared below the Lake oiMyris. Now, as this Menes or Ofirts ' 

 Was the fame with Mizraim the Son of Cham \ the firft Planter 

 of Egypt ; as all the foregoing Circumftances fo well agree with 

 the Mofaic Account of the Flood and the Difperfion of Mankind ; 

 it muft be allowed, that Herodotus hereby confirms the Truth 

 andCertainty of the Scripture-Chronology ; and at the fame Time 

 overthrows the Authority of all thofe extravagant Annals and 

 Antiquities, that have been fo much boafted of by the Egyptians, 



I A/ovuVu (Ofiridi) 1\ rrivmKi^Met ti) μύεΐΛ λο^ίζοί^ται ηιόι If Αμα^ιν βασιΛα, %j ιαχητί hiy!i-£m Λτξίίύαί 

 φ«βι tOTsa^oi, αϊ$ί 71 λ.ο}ΐζόμΛΗΐ, )^ cuti iin^aφ()μiγcιι ττί ίτίΛ. Herod. Eut. 5- 145'• Xlf 3 o^ts/ A£j.«s•/, ίτΐΛ 

 £Jl ίΤ'τακ/'^λ/β )^ juJp/s( er ΑμΛσίγ βοΐηλοόσα»τΛ, 1•7Τ(ΐ τί (λ 7ωι μτιο ^ίων ο/ J\iciSii{g. θίοί ί^ί'νοκτο, των ΗρΛκλΜ 

 %ι«¥θ(Μζ^ι. Id. ibid. 5- 43• The like Account we have in Diodorus, at the fame Time he ac- 

 knowledges, that the Egyptians boaft of Aftronomical Obfervations, («ξ Ιταν α-τπίαγ. p. ji.) 

 from an incredible Number of Years. Είναι Ji Ιτ» φαιην ώί Ooip/J'®' 'iot -ί AM^hSfis βα^ιΜ^ικ •τΓλίίι» 

 τάτ fJMfiar is y eyioi pfajoi/fl, ^a.•^ hfiitona 7^1 ίιαμψαν i^ Tf/^yMai', D'lod. Sic. 1. 1, p. 1 j. & p. ly. 

 ©fSi» t^TOf βΛίΐλΐΖ^αχ tfasir τικ laiJif Slgfy' W ay^dTTar Λ' tw χω^αιν βίζουι^οϊ^Κ^ Suts fw^ia.^Qj' er» /3o«;^ 

 AtlTTOKTe 7afjiv7xi)ii^Kim, μί^^ι -ί txeiTtdJf i^ lytfbuKOi^f ihu^miSQr. 1ί/. l.i. p.28. 2 Herod. Eat i.ll. 

 5 Vid. Shuckford's Conne<3t. Vol. i. p. aoy. 4 Gen. 10. <S 



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