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AND

INQUIRIES

RELATING TO

VARIOUS PARTS OF ANCIENT HISTORY;

CONTAINING

DISSERTATIONS

ON THE :

WIND EUROCLYDON,

AND ON THE

ISLAND MELITE,

TOGETHER WITH AN

ACCOUNT OF EGYPT IN ITS MOST EARLY STATE,

AND OF THE

SHEPHERD KINGS:

WHEREIN

The TIME of their coming, the PROVINCE which they
particularly poffeffed, and to which the ISRAELITES
afterwards fucceded, is endeavoured to be stated.

The Whole calculated to throw Light on the Hiftory of that Antient
Kingdom, as well as on the Hiftories of the ASSYRIANS,
CHALDEANS, BABYLONIANS, EDOMITES, and other Nations.

By JACOB BRYANT.

CAMBRIDGE,

Printed by J. ARCHDEACON Printer to the UNIVERSITY;
Sold by T. & J. MERRILL, in Cambridge; and T. PAYNE, in Castle-street,

near the Mews, London.

M.DCC.LXVII.

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то

HIS GRACE THE DUKE

OF

MARLBOROUGH.

I

MY LORD,

WOULD not prefume to introduce the ensuing Treatifes to Your Grace's notice, were I not well acquainted with Your love of truth, and Your zeal to obtain it through the most severe investigation. A mind fo devoted is the best judge of evidence in every degree, being influenced by a more exquifite taste and difcernment, and enriched

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