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 Having hown us from whom all thoe People decended, who are pread over the Face of the Earth, from the Capian and Perian Sea, to Hercules his Pillars (as the Ancients peak) that is, all the World over.

In hort, whatoever is mot ancient in thoe Countries, which are furthet from all Commerce with his own, is clearly explained by Moes '': whoe Writings therefore cannot but be highly valued by all thoe who will apply their Minds eriously to the tudy of them. For if they, who now have no regard to him, would but compare what he hath written on the fore-named Subject, with what they find in thoe Heathen Writers, whom they have in the greatet veneration, they would be forced to confes him to be a Man of wonderful Undertanding; and could not reaonably doubt he had an exact knowledge of the Truth of thoe things, whereof he wrote. To this purpoe, I remember, the famous Bochartus peaks, who hath given the greatet Light to the Tenth of Geneis, wherein thee things are delivered.''

And truly, it is ome wonder, That they who o muh cry up the Egyptian Learning, hould not eaily grant (unles they will believe all Hitorians but only thoe whom we account Sacred) that Moes