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Human Policy is said no where to commit more Mistakes, than in the Direction of reli gious Matters: But for this Observation, one might venture to affirm, that the Priests of Egypt, or whoever had the first framing of their religious Model, had acted with great Wisdom and Foresight, when theyl affirmed that the Form of their Worship, and the very common Prayer of the Country had been prescribed by the vrery Deity to whom it was to be addressed. It is to be presumed, that they meant by this to procure perfect Submission to their Liturgy, and prevent the pernicious Effects which Dissensions upon such important Points have produced in many Countries. Plato, who had conversed with the Egyptian Priests, lets us know, ' That P-i6$(b) ' they assert in Egypt, that the sacred Hymns, l69- (b) ' preserved among them so long a time, were f composed by the Goddess IS IS. Laws II.





The following Account of the Source of the Nile, is from EUTHTMENES, who has fully exercised the Privilege of a Traveller : He has adapted a Lye to the common Tradition of it's flowing out of the Atlantic Ocean.—* I have T66.(-c) ' sailed the Atlantic Ocean : out of it the 172. ic) ' Nile Rh