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Xj)'^/^^ To make out this, he tells us of a great 
'^21X1^^ Maris tht Scytfjian, Py- 
^ihagoras ^ iHat the formex paade a Voyage from the utmoft 
parts of the North to the tatter, and taught him many Ar- 
cana^ many things alfo concerning the Saperftition and Sa- 
crifices of the Hjperhream^ and concerning the Origin and 
Genealogy of their Gods. And fays that Pjthagoruf^ Ho- 
mer, Uejiod, and others of the Greeks had vifited the re- 
mote Korthern parts. And as neither the Gods, nor ths 
Names of the Gods, nor the Fables concerning them, be- 
long to the Greeks as the firft Authors and Inventers of 
them, but that all thefe, by the Confeffion of the Greeh 
themfelves, came from the Barbarians, or Hyperboreans, to 
themj and other Nations. 
So he here exftrafts a good part of the Fables from the 
Scalds zndL other Northern Monoments, and (hews what 
anfwers to them in the fabulous Hiftory of the Greeks 
and having laid before us 75 Fables fo extrafted, he con* 
dudes, as even Foreigners have done, that whatfoever 
there has been of Philofophy among the Europeahs, Afia* 
*/V/^x and jEgj^p^i^/^j' has flowed from the ancient Hyper bore^ 
ans. And that the Names of the Gods and Goddenes and 
their Worfbip came from them to the Greeks, and from 
thence to the Romans. And he challenges the whole 
World to contend with them, concerning the AtUntick 
Jjland on thefe conditions. 
1. That they (hew a like connexion of their Fables with 
the Grecians, as he has here tliewn of the Northern. 
2. That they as fairly bring for themfelves a moft clear 
Confeffion of the Greeks ^ as he has done for the Hyperbo- 
reans, in this cafe : Wiiich he thinks it impoffible for them, 
to do, all Nature, a good part of which is fhadowed forth 
by thofe Fables, l3eing againft them, and forcing them to 
yield the point to the North j for which be gives feveral 
convincing proofs. 
