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full of the wisdom of his great Ancestor Noah,
he taught and encouraged them to clear the
Ground, to cultivate the Land, to sow Corn,
to make Bread, and to meliorate their ordi-
nary Liquor by the help of Barly and the
juice of the Vine : he moreover instruded
them in the art of building Houses of more
lading materials, he perswaded them to live
together in Towns, he regulated their Cut
toms or Laws. He incited them to a mutual
Commerce with the neighbouring Colonies as
well as with one another, and in a word
completed their civil Establishment. The an-
cient Antediluvian year of 360 days, by the
assistance of his Brother Aroueris (Thoth, Her-
mes, or Mercury] he reduced to a more exad
conformity to the present course of the Sun’s
Revolution, to 3 6 5 days—His wife Isis [Athena
Minerva or Ceres') ieems likewife to have been
a woman of a more than ordinary strength of
mind, bravely seconding her Husband in all
his generous undertakings for the Improvement
and Good of their Country. Nor were their
great merits overlooked by their grateful sub-
jeds, being transmitted by them to Posterity,
as the supreme benefadors of Egypt, as the firss:
King and Queen of the land, or rather, as the
Founders of their State and Nation,

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