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 The Whole calculated to throw Light on the Hiftory of that Antient By JACOB BRYANT. CAMBRIDGE, Printed by J. ARCHDEACON Printer to the UNIVERSITY; near the Mews, London. M.DCC.LXVII. 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 |