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 chis, with Asia the Less, and the Islands of the Ægean Sea, where having left Marks of his Power, he returned home again to reap the Fruits of his Labours: A Tradition which might have been preserved without setting up a College at Heliopolis for that Purpose.

The very learned Mr. Dodwell in his Discourse concerning the Phœnician History of Sanchoniathon, advances a Notion which may help to give a very probable Account of those vast Antiquities of the Egyptians pretended to by Manetho. He thinks that after the History of Moses was translated into Greek, and so made common to the learned Men of the neighbouring Nations, that they endeavoured to rival them by pretended Antiquities of their own, that so they might not seem to come behind a People, who till then had been so obscure. This, though particularly applied by Mr. Dodwell to Sanchoniathon's History, seems equally forcible in the present Controversie: For Manetho dedicated his History to Ptolemee Philadelphus, at whose Command it was written, and wrote it about the Time that the LXXII Interpreters translated the Pentateuch. The great Intercourse which the Egyptians and Israelites formerly had each with other, made up a considerable.