naus was a Chemite; and that he was dethroned and driven out of Egypt by his brother, Egyptus; and that he fled, in company with one Lynceus, into Greece. Here again is a manifest coincidence of facts between the filids and Berofus, but delivered with some certainty, and very circumftantially, by the former, and much mutilated, as many other historical facts are, by the Greeks; for as to the change of names, we have often before proved, that the Greeks ever made it their practice; but the expulfion of a prince, at that juncture, is the fact which points at the Scythian's retreat from Egypt; not to Greece, but to Spain, unless there happened two expulfions of princes out of Egypt about the fame time. Some of the filids. say, they first landed in the island of Crete, and, after fome time, went from thence to Spain; others, that they went immediately into that country, and there established themselves, and grew famous in war and learning, and at: length failed into Ireland.. A A TREATISE, among the Irish records, intitled, the Book of Conquefts, or Invafions, informs us, that from Moses's leading the Ifraelites out of Egypt, to the time that the fons of Melefius invaded Ireland, was two hundred and eighty-three years: and the Irish Chronicles agree, that this invafion happened one thousand and eighty years after the flood. There is fomething very remarka ble in the exactnefs of this chronology, with what is re-ceived amongst the most learned of the writers, who have made it their study. It is faid, by the Irish chronologists;, that Partholanus landed in Ireland 300 years after the deluge; his pofterity continued there 300 years; after their deftruction by a peftilence, 30 years paft before the Nemedians took poffeffion of it; and they governed the island 217 years; the Firbolgs obtruded themfelves upon them, and governed 36 years; the Danans conquered these, and ruled the land 197 years; and these were conquered by the sons of Milefius, at the end of this period. The fum of the whole then will ftand thus: From the flood to Partholanus's landing From that the island defolate From that the Nemedians poffeffed it From that the Danans ruled Years. 300 300 30 217 36 197 From the flood to the arrival of the Milefians 1080 LET us compare this with Chitraus, who wrote a chronology of the histories of Herodotus, and Thucidides, and we shall find a furprizing agreement between his and the above account. This author fays, page 121, that the deftruction of Pharaoh Cenchres and his hoft in the Red Sea, happened anno mundi 2453. Now if we fubtract the years of the world to the flood, which make 1656, according to the Irish records, and Holy Writ, there will remain 797, the time between the flood, and Mofes's leading the Ifraelites, according to Chitraus; to which, if we add 283, the number. of years that paffed from that period, before the arrival of the Milefians in Ireland, the fum will make 1080 years from the deluge to the beginning of the reign of the Milefians in that kingdom; and, according to the bishop of Clogher's Chronology of the Hebrew Bible, the fame number of years, 797, are mentioned between the flood and the escape of the Israelites out of Egypt, which the Universal History makes 857. Now if the iffue of Gadelas landed in Crete, they must have remained masters of that island during the 283 years, provided the immediate fucceffor of Cenchres drove them out as foon as he mounted the throne; but if their expulfion happened in the reign of Gadelas's grandfon, Sru, then their stay in Crete could not be fo long, because a confiderable part of that 283 years would be spent during the reigns of Gadelas, and Eafru, his fon, befides the number of years that Sru might have reigned before he was driven out: but, however this be, it is certain they went through various changes and viciffitudes before their arrival in Spain, which moft certainly was, at the time mentioned after the flood, not only in Crete, but in some parts of Greece, and in Scythia, among their old relations, performing many memorable and heroic exploits. wherever they went. This chronology is also strengthened by the testimony of the famous Maccuillenan, in his Pfal ter of Cafbel, when he fays the Milefians came into Ireland 1300 years before CHRIST, which makes 220 more than the genealogy: and this agrees with the book of Invafions, and the Polychronicon, of which the latter says, “ ab adventu Hibernenfium ufque ad obitum Sancti Patricii, funt anni mille octingenti." From the arrival of the Milefians Milefians into Ireland to the death of St. Patrick, are a thousand eight hundred years, which brings it to much the fame account with the Pfalter; for the death of Patrick happened four hundred and ninety-two years after the birth of CHRIST; which, fubtracted from the eighteen hundred, brings it to 1308 years, which is very near the point. LET US, however, take it another way; if we subtract bishop Maccuillenan's 1300 years before CHRIST, when he fays the Milefians arrived in Ireland, from the first year of CHRIST and of the flood, 2348, according to the chronological table of the Univerfal History, it will produce 1048 between the deluge and the Milefians coming there, which makes it 32 years less than the chronology mentioned, of Chitraus, 1080. and is but a trifling difference in matters of fuch remote antiquity, fo that they all are pretty near one another. LET us now confider, in this place, that, according to the filids, schools were first established, and all kinds of languages and learning taught by Feniufa in Shinar, which was foon propagated all over Phoenicia, probably called by that name from him Let us again observe, that his son, Niul, was the prince who carried the Scythian learning first into Egypt, where he married ånd reigned, as was observed before, along the Red Sea. His fame in the sciences was so great, that he was the chief director of all the improvements that were made in the public works that were performing, especially in agriculture, making famous canals of communication, &c. which were carried on very rapidly, till the deftruction of his father-in-law, Pharaoh Cenchres, : with whom, it is faid, he was always in perfect friendship and it is more than probable he was the Nilus, from whom the river Nile had its name, from what Died. Sicul. in his first book, says in two places, that this river was first called Egyptus, but afterwards Nilus, from an Egyptian king, called Nileus, who made it his ftudy to render that river more commodious by cuts and canals, and other improvements. But it was probably called Sihor afterwards, from his great grandfon, Sru, and contrary to what is faid by the Greeks of Nilus, Sihor and Ofibor ; Niul, Eafru and Sru were the names changed by them into these appellations; for of Niul they made Nilus, of Eafru they made Ofihor, and of Sru they made Sihor, with many other fuch mutilations. And it is very remarkable, that Sir Ifaac, whofe chronological tables are very different from those received by other authors, in many respects, should think that all these, and other names, were different appellations of the same person ; which I fhall here recite in his own words, fpeaking of Sefoftris, or, as he fays, Sefac, the Shifac of Scripture: "Sefac, or Sefoftris, became king in Egypt, in "the reign of Solomon, and before he began to reign he "warred under his father, and whilst he was very young, "conquered Arabia, Troglodytica and Libya, and then “invaded Ethiopia; and, fucceeding his father, reigned “ till the fifth year of Asa: and therefore he was about "the fame age with the children of Pharaoh, and might “be one of them, and might be born near the end of "David's reign, and be about forty-fix years old, when " he came out of Egypt with a great army to invade the |