IV, An Account hy the Rev. Zachary Pearce^ 
2 ). fZ). F. R. S. of a Book intkuJed, Re- 
flexions Critiques fur les Hiftoires des An- 
ciens Peuples, &c, Paris 1735* 4°* m z 
Vol 
M O NS. Fourmont is well known to the learned 
World for fome curious Pieces which he 
has already publilhed, and for very many others in 
almoft all Languages, which he has prepared for the 
Prefs, and the Titles of which he has given us in a 
Catalogue of his Works printed Amjierdam 173 1. 
in 8vo. 
This Work of his, which now lies before the So- 
ciety, is intituled, Reflexions Critiques fur les Hi- 
Jioires des Anciens FeupleSy &c. lately printed at 
RariSy in 2 Vols. in 4to, at the Expcnce of fome 
French Gentlemen of his Acquaintance, as he tells 
us in ikvz Advertifement'f^‘^zt<i h^iox.z \\\sRreface. 
His general Delign is to fet right the Hiflory of the 
moft antient Nations, particularly the Chaldeans ^ 
Hebrews y RhoenicianSy Egyptians, Greeksy &c. down 
to the Time of Cyrus the Pounder of the Rerjian 
Empire. 
The Work conlifts of three Books. 
. In the Firft of which he gives us at Length the 
famous Fragment of Sanchoniatkon the Rh(Eniciany 
as tranfiated by Rhilo BybliuSy and preferved by Eu- 
febiiis in his R r £paratio Evangelica, Lib. I. cap. 9. 
With this Fragment he has publiflied a French 
VciTion of it, in which he endeavours to dihinguifii 
between the Account given by Sanchoniathon the 
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