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ii marks of foreign improvement or innovation. Isis, Orisis, Ammoun, Typhon, and Thoth, are natives of Egypt, receive their names from its vernacular language, and worship from its physical situation."

If this conclusion should be adopted, and it should be allowed that the religion and philosophy, as well as the language, and all the other possessions of the Egyptian people, were peculiar to themselves, and entirely unconnected with those which belonged to other nations of antiquity, we shall perhaps be obliged to admit the inference which has been deduced respecting the origin of the Egyptian race; though it contradicts the testimony of the Sacred Records, the earliest memorials of mankind, and is at variance with the general observations that result