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 built the Pyramids with the Treasures that their Furnaces afforded them, since if there were so many Thousand Talents expended in Leeks and Onions, as Herodotus tells us there were, which must needs have been an inconsiderable Sum in Comparison of the whole Expence of the Work, one cannot imagine how they could have raised Money enough to defray the Charge of the Work any other Way. And since Borrichius, Jacobus Tollius has set out a Book called Fortuita, wherein he makes most of the Old Mythology to be Chymical Secrets.

But though Borrichius may believe that he can find some obscure Hints of this Great Work in the Heathen Mythologists, and in some scattered Verses of the Ancient Poets, which according to him they themselves did not fully understand when they wrote them; yet this is certain, That the ancientest Chymical Writers now extant, cannot be proved to have been so old as the Age of ''Augustus. Conringius believes that Zosimus Panopolita is the oldest Chymical Author that we have, whom he sets lower than Constantine the Great''. That perhaps may be a Mistake; for Borrichius, who had read them both in MS. in the French King's Library, brings very plausible Arguments to prove