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to obferve the defcent oi the Sun and Moon into the Bd' 
tick Sea : And conGdering that the Ph^nicUns^ Greeks* 
Perjfunsy Latins ^ and the Goths that liv'd out of their 
Country, as well as their Anceftors, us*d Letters for Mem- 
bers, he thinks it is moft evident that their Runes were 
more ancient than the Letters of all the others 5 and fays 
he has moft clearly made out that their moft ancient Runic 
Monuments are of 4000 years ftanding, viz. that they were 
fet up and cut with Letters the in 17 hundredth Century 
after the Creation : Which if it will hold good, we may 
note, that this comes very near to the time of the Flood, ac- 
cording to the Hebrew Chronology^ which the Author fol- 
lows, and utterly refufes the Septuagint Chronology, as to 
Ep^A^V of the Creation, and Deluge. He obferves that 
Noah liv'd 350 years after the Flood, Gen. 9. 28. that is, to 
the year of the World 2006.. The Deluge happened 1655 
years after the Creation 5 and fo he fays he finds that Noah 
dyed a whole Age after the Lunar Circle was cut in the 
Runick Fafts^ and two Ages after the famei^^^^ were com- 
posed by King Atlas, according to the motion of the Sun : 
And fays the Atlantic^ Fajls were carried by Hercules into 
JEgypt^ and by Saturn into Tufcany, about the fame time. 
He tells us. That, according to, the opinion of their An- 
ceftors, Ice or Ifin gave a rife not only to the Earth, but 
likewife to all Terreftrial and Celeftial Bodies whatfoever^ 
and therefore their Writers calfd the Goddefs Difa^ alfo 
jf^, and I/a:^ whence the ^Egyptians got their Nane of I/is. 
He fays. Their Anceftors gave the Names of their Gods 
to the 7 days of the week : To their firft day, from their 
God Logius, that is five, they gave the name of Logedag.ov 
Loje-dag, as it were, the Day of Five^ Logrus being que of 
the names of Saturn and in this refpefl: this God is to be 
• accounted the Father of Time, and of all things. To the 
three following days, they have given the names of the 
three moft famous Bodies of the whole Univerfc, becaufe 
they faw the R^e, Increafe, Life aud Motion of all Terre- 
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