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ivlathetnatidan, flduriflicd. And forafmuch as among the mani* 
fold great Events , which have happened in the Courfe of 
Affairs, thofe that have been the Original or Eflablifliment of 
great Families, and Empires, and Cities, or theExtinflionand 
Subduing of others ; the Inftiiution and Conftitation of 
Publick Conventions of People; great Inundations and Con- 
flagrations, and other the like Deftruftions ; foraf»uch,^i 
fay,as fome of rhefe have been the cccafionand ground of the 
received JS/'t^r^'/^'s of Time, our Author makes it part of his 
bufinefs here truly to ftate them: As ihzi of ^aho;taf[ar, of the 
O/yw^/W Computation, of the Foundation of the City of 
Rome, of the Calippie Period , of the Years of the Seleucida, 
thtDiony^an^ tyrim^ and many more ; among which arefevc- 
ral EpoclfA of Time, antecedent to thofe juft now mention'd ; 
as that of the Deftruftion of troy \ the Floods of Ogyges diXid 
Diucath^i and beyond thefe, the Original of thofe Ancient 
Principalities of Sicyone^ Argos and Athens, 
And thefe being determined by our Author, hedefcendsto 
feme of thofe that are nearer hand; and in the firPc place, to 
that Memorable Epccha, wherein all Chronologers , old and 
new, doagree^ which is the Beginning of the Principality of 
Cyrmr which was Am» r . OlympiM^ 5 5» Whence appears the 
true State of the Ferfian Succeflion , from €yfus to Alexander^ 
or from the taking of Babylonhy the former, unto the taking 
of the fame by the later. Next^ he paffes to the points of 
Time belonging to i4/^je.^^^^»/^JS then, to the Succeflion of 
ihi^ Ptolomai , to the Death of €le0fAtrA\ then, to the Syro- 
Macedoman Succeflion, from Sekucus Nicamr to Antmhus 
ApAticHS. From this Ef(^ha^ he tacks abouc, returning to the 
head of xht Ferfian Dignity under Cyrm , which head was Ar^ 
iaeesh Revolt from the Ajfyri^ Monarchy , here manifefted to 
be a compIeatCentury of Years before the common received 
Reckoning by 0/yw//Wi. And as^ concurrent in time with 
the Medes, he doth in this place explicate the Lydkn Succefli- 
on. After which he exhibits the Babylonian Succeffion,beginning 
Nahn4(far,\mto theexpugnation of Babylon hy Cyrus ^ and 
the extermination of And then, the Ajfyrian Suc- 
ceflJon from Belui ,Xo SArd^na^alus \ which he clears from Ob- 
jeSions^ and efpepially a main one of Bifliop Ufier. To which 
heibbjoyns two otjjcr Lines- ^^^^^^ to the 
