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Rh First, Becaue it is received amongt the Ancients, that he was the firt that invented the Art of communicating Knowledg to the World, by Writing or Engraving. Now if o, then in all probability he was before Moes; for it is aid of Moes, that he was from his childehood, skilled in all the Egyptian Learning, which could not well have been without the help of Literature, which we never read of any before that invented by Hermes. Secondly, He is aid by himelf, to be the on of Saturn, and by others to be Scribe of Saturn. Now Saturn according to Hitorians, lived in the time of Sarug, Abrahams