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have given him by you, and accept of my beft Ac- 
knowledgments for your Favoufs. I am, with the 
greateft Regard and Efteem, 
SIR , 
Cajils-Dobbs, Feb. I0< 
1746 - 7 . Tour mojl obedient 
bumble Servant , 
Arthur Dobbs, 
XIII. A Letter from the Rev. Mr. G. Cof* 
tard, to the Rev. Thomas Shaw, 2). 2). 
F. R. S. and Principal of St. Edmund- 
Hall, concerning the Chinefe Chronology 
and Aftronomy. 
Reverend Sir , 
Read April jo.' - 1 i H E Subjed of our late Converfa- 
* 747 ’ A tion turn’d upon the Affectation of 
fome Nations, in carrying up their Hiftories to fo 
immoderate a Height, as plainly to fhew thofe Ac- 
counts to be fictitious and without Foundation. 
This, it was agreed, was the Cafe of the Babylonian 
and Egyptian Accounts ; and you feem’d to think 
it would be found to be the fame with any other 
People that Ihould make the like Pretenfions. 
The only People in later Times that have 
been thought to contradid this Opinion are the 
Chinefe , of whofe Hiftory the World hath been 
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