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be necefiary now to fpeak in fome detail, although the con- 

 nexion they all have with the trade of the Red Sea, and 

 with each other, will oblige me to go back to very early 

 times, to the invention of letters, and all the ufeful arts, 

 which had their beginning here, were carefully nourifhed, 

 and came probably to as great a perfe&ion as they did ever 

 fince arrive at any other period, 



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