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250 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
Egyptians enumerated by Clemens Alexandrinus,* and, ac 
cording to historical traditions, written by Athothis, the son 
of Menes, the first king of Egypt, about 2781 B. C., 666 years 
after the Deluge. They are almost all ornamented ¥i 
vignettes, sometimes colored, and even gilded; ea ! 
All these sacred books of the Egyptians very often, aft 
the name of God, i. e. Osiris (osh-heri, the most holy one), 
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