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APPENDIX.
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account of apostasy and rebellion, from Babel, from Egypt, and
from Palestine ; and who afterwards, under the name of Cyclopes,
Pelasgi, Phoenices, &c, were pursued by Divine vengeance, and
successively driven from every settled habitation—from Greece,3
from Tyre, and from Carthage, even to the distant regions of
America, where traces of their buildings, and, it has been
supposed, of their costume, as represented in Egyptian sculpture,
have been discovered. These tribes seem formerly to have been
living instances of Divine retribution, as the dispersed Jews are at
present. They appear to have been at last entirely destroyed ; but
their wanderings and misfortunes have been recorded by the ever-
living genius of the two greatest poets in the Greek and Latin
languages; and the Pyramids remain enduring yet silent monu-
ments of the matchless grandeur of this extraordinary people, of
the certainty of Divine justice, and of the truth of revelation.
HERODOTUS. —445 d.c.
book ii.
Sect. 124. —Now they (the priests) told me, that Egypt had
enjoyed an excellent constitution and government, and a great
state of prosperity, up to the time of King Rliampsinitus. His
successor was Cheops, who reduced them to utter misery; for
be closed all the temples, and debarred them from sacrifice. He
next enjoined all the Egyptians to labour for him : on some he
imposed the task of drawing stones, from the quarries in the
Arabian mountains, to the Nile; others were charged to receive the
stones when transported over the river, and to draw them to the
so-called Libyan mountains. They worked in bodies of a hundred
thousand men, relieved every three months. The period of the
oppression of the people was ten years for the construction of the
causeway, along which they drew the stones—a work in my
opinion not much inferior to the Pyramid ; for it is three thousand
feet long, sixty feet wide, and in its loftiest part forty-eight feet
n'gb. It is of polished stones, with intaglios of animals. Ten years
' See Sir \V. Gell's " Kome and its Vicinity," vol. ii. p. 148, where he mentions
their expulsion from Alliens, and also that by Euripides they were styled, " Sons of
JEgyptus."
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account of apostasy and rebellion, from Babel, from Egypt, and
from Palestine ; and who afterwards, under the name of Cyclopes,
Pelasgi, Phoenices, &c, were pursued by Divine vengeance, and
successively driven from every settled habitation—from Greece,3
from Tyre, and from Carthage, even to the distant regions of
America, where traces of their buildings, and, it has been
supposed, of their costume, as represented in Egyptian sculpture,
have been discovered. These tribes seem formerly to have been
living instances of Divine retribution, as the dispersed Jews are at
present. They appear to have been at last entirely destroyed ; but
their wanderings and misfortunes have been recorded by the ever-
living genius of the two greatest poets in the Greek and Latin
languages; and the Pyramids remain enduring yet silent monu-
ments of the matchless grandeur of this extraordinary people, of
the certainty of Divine justice, and of the truth of revelation.
HERODOTUS. —445 d.c.
book ii.
Sect. 124. —Now they (the priests) told me, that Egypt had
enjoyed an excellent constitution and government, and a great
state of prosperity, up to the time of King Rliampsinitus. His
successor was Cheops, who reduced them to utter misery; for
be closed all the temples, and debarred them from sacrifice. He
next enjoined all the Egyptians to labour for him : on some he
imposed the task of drawing stones, from the quarries in the
Arabian mountains, to the Nile; others were charged to receive the
stones when transported over the river, and to draw them to the
so-called Libyan mountains. They worked in bodies of a hundred
thousand men, relieved every three months. The period of the
oppression of the people was ten years for the construction of the
causeway, along which they drew the stones—a work in my
opinion not much inferior to the Pyramid ; for it is three thousand
feet long, sixty feet wide, and in its loftiest part forty-eight feet
n'gb. It is of polished stones, with intaglios of animals. Ten years
' See Sir \V. Gell's " Kome and its Vicinity," vol. ii. p. 148, where he mentions
their expulsion from Alliens, and also that by Euripides they were styled, " Sons of
JEgyptus."