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Arts, notwithftanding that it appears by the Scrip- 
tures, that their Idolatry and Arts were as old as the 
Days of Mofes and Jacob , Pag. 82, 83. But he is 
again miflaken. 1 deny not that the Kingdom of the 
lower Egypt, called Mizraim , had a Religion of their 
own, till they were invaded and fubducd by the 
Shepherds, who were of another Religion : but I fay, 
that, when the Thebajis expelled the Shepherds, they 
fet up the Worlhip of their own Kings and Princes. 
I fay alfo, that Arts were brought into Europe prin- 
cipally by the Lh&nicians and Curetes , in the rime of 
Cadmus and David, about 1041 Years before Chrifl- 
and do not deny that they were in Fhanicia, Egypt, 
and Idumea , before they came into Europe . 
The Obfervator faith a!fo, that, 884 Years before 
Chrifl, I place the Beg nning of the canicular Cycle 
of the Egyptians upon the vernal Equinox, although 
that Cycle never begins in Spring, Pag. 84, 85. But 
be is again miflaken. I meddle not with that Cycle, 
but fpeak of the Egyptian Year of 365 Days. 
The Obfervator reprefen is, that 1 have a great 
Work to come out: but 1 never told him fo. When 
I lived at Cambridge , I us’d fometimes to refrefh my- 
felf with Hiflory and Chronology for a While, when 
I was weary with other Studies : but I never told 
him, that I was preparing a Work of this Kind for the 
Prefs. 
Abbe Conti came into England in Spring 1715, and, 
while he Raid in E?gla?id, he pretended to be my 
Friend, but aflifled Mr. Leibnitz; in engaging me in 
new Difputes, and hath fince a&ed in the fame Man- 
ner in France. The Part he a&ed here may be un- 
derfiood by the Character given of him in the Ada 
Eruaitorum for the Year 1721, Pag. 90. where the 
Editor, excufing himfelf from repeating fome Dif- 
putes 
