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fame with the Writing own’d by me in my Letter, 
and is perfuaded that the Manuicript, which hath 
been communicated to him, hath been copied from 
that of this Friend, that is, from that of the particular 
Friend above-mention’d • in my Letter. And there- 
fore the Manufcript, whi^h hath been communicated 
to him, is that of Abbe Conti , a noble Venetian now 
at Paris . He, being about feven Years ago in Eng- 
land, gave me notice, that the Friend above-mention’d 
defir’d to fpeak with me. And this Friend then de- 
fir’d a Copy of what I had written about Chronology. 
I replied that it was im per fed: and confus’d, but in a 
few Days I could draw up an Abftrad thereof, if it 
might be kept fecret. And fome Time after I had 
done this, and prefented it, this Friend defir’d that 
Signor Conti might have a Copy of it. He was the 
only Perfon who had a Copy, and he knew that it 
was a Secret, and that it was at the Defire of this 
Friend, and by my Leave, that he. had a Copy, and 
he kept it fecret, while he ilaid in England j and yet, 
without either this Friend’s Leave or mine, he difpers’d 
Copies of it in France , and got an Antiquary to 
tranfiate it into French , and to confute it } and the 
Antiquary hath got a Printer to print the Tranfiation 
and the Confutation j and the Printer hath endea- 
vour’d to get my Leave to print the Tranfiation, 
without fending me a Copy thereof to be perus’d, or 
telling me the Name of the Tran'flator, or letting me 
know that his Defign was to print it with a Confuta- 
tion unanfwer’d and unknown tome. 
The Tranfiator near the End of his Obfervations 
(Page 90) faith, I believe that I have Laid enough con- 
cerning the Epocha of the Argonauts , and the Length 
of Generations to make People cautious about the reft. 
For thefe are the two Foundations of ail this new 
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