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themfelves in laborious refearches after learned 

 trifles : but the abufe of a fcience ought never 

 to make us n.-^ecl the applying it to rational 

 and uieful purpofes. 



IV. Many antiquaries alfo reftrain their learned 

 labours to the eccla'rcifiement or" the antiquities 

 of Greece and Rome : but this field is far too 

 confinea> and by no means contains the whole 

 of this fcience, feeing it properly includes the 

 antiquities of the Jews, Egyptians, Perfians, 

 PhenicLns, Carthaginians, Hetrufcans, Germans, 

 and, in general,, all thofe principal nations whom 

 we have mentioned in the 5th chapter of ancient 

 hiftory , fo far as any accounts of them are come 

 down to us. 



V. It will be eafily conceived, that it is not 

 poflible for us to enter here into the detail of all 

 thefe matters : it is our bufmels, however, to in- 

 form our readers of what they cught to inquire 

 after in the ftudy of the antiquities of each peo- 

 ple, as far as the monuments or memoirs that 

 are yet remaining can furnifh any lights ; and 

 this is what remains to be done to complete this 

 chapter. 



VI. The fcience of antiquities includes there- 

 fore, 



i. The origin of a people, and of the name 

 they bear. 



2. Th 



