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Aiithofi and what he fuppofes to be the Additions 
of ‘Fh 'tlo the Greek Tranflator. 
After this he examines into the Reafons brought 
by feveral of the Learned for and againjl the Ge- 
nuinenefs of the Fragment, and determines in favour 
of it with as much Weight of Argument as theQue- 
ftion will admit. He then takes Notice of a Treatife, 
written on the fame Subjed as his own, by our 
learned Countryman Bifhop Cumberland ; and having 
examined and declared his Dillike of the Bifliop^s 
Scheme in the main, he prepares his Reader to exped 
full Satisfaction from his own, which makes the 
Subject of his fecond Book. 
In his fecond Book, he undertakes to reconcile 
the Generations of Men fet forth in Sanchoniathon's 
Pragment, with thofe which are recorded by Mofes 
of the Patriarchs before and for fomc time after the 
Flood. 
By the Help of Hebrew y Phoenician and Egyptian 
Etymologies, he often makes the Names, which at 
firft Sight are almoft all quite unlike, to be the fame in 
Sound, or at leaft in Senfe. And by this Application 
of his Skill in the antient Languages, he readily finds 
out a Coincidence between Mofes’s and Sanchoni- 
athons earlieft Generations. 
But his main Work, and what he appears moft 
pleafed with, is his Difeovery of Abraham and his 
Family among the later Generations recorded by 
Sanchoniathon. Having laid down (upon good 
Grounds, as he affures us) that Ouranos is Terah, the 
Father of Abraham^ he undertakes to prove, that 
Abraham is the Cronus of Sanchoniathon and the 
Saturnus of the Latins s that Sarah (his Wife) is 
the 
