The Author, having finifhed this remarkable Part 
of his Work, enters into a very learned Detail of the 
particular Gods of the feveral Heathen Nations, who 
are mod celebrated in Hiftory j and he has {hewed a 
great Compafs ofReading upon this Occafion. Hardly 
any Writer has been more copious on the Subjed, 
or has given better Hints for clearing up many Paf- 
fages of facred and profane Story. 
In his third Book he has treated at large about the 
Dynafties of Egypt-, and the Shepherd- Kings who 
reigned there ; Both of them, perhaps, the darkeft 
Spots in the whole Face of Antiquity. He has taken 
great Pains to fix the Epochs of the Kings of Sicyon-, 
Sidon and Tyre, of Arabia, Ajjyria, Lydia, of the 
Medes and Babylonians concerning all which he has 
laid together the moft remarkable Teftimonics of the 
Antients. At length he comes to his favourite Point, 
the Chine and gives us (as he fays) a com- 
plete Lift of their Kings, from the Flood down to 
the prefent Monarch of that Empire, and fhews that 
the Chronology of the Chinefe may be made pretty 
nearly confiftent with the true Chronology of the 
Old Tejlament. 
And for this Part of the Work the Author Teems 
well fitted, being skilTd (as he tells us in his Pre- 
face) in the learned Charadlers of that Country, 
which he has ftudied for near twenty Years, and has 
for Tome time taught in the Royal College at Baris ; 
and having compofed five Didionaries, and a Gram- 
mar of that Language, together with a Tranflation, 
almoft in tire, of the Geography of Tamim, which 
contains no lefs than the whole Hiftory of that Em- 
pire : On which Occafion he applies to himfelf, and 
