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PREFACE. χίϋ
celebrating his Funeral Rites, and in other te-
stimonies of their great gratitude and esteem
for his memory.
Such then appears to have been the ground-
work, and original basis as it were of the
subsequent Mythology, cleared from all that
mighty heap of rubbiih and confusion, which
both Art and Fancy seem so industrioussy to
have thrown upon it: it is no other in reality
than an Hifiorical Account of the Founda-
tion of the Egyptian State·) its firfi Kings and
Planters.
What seems then to have yielded occasion
to all those numerous, uncertain, and even
contradictory additions of later Ages, to the
absurd Fictions of Mythologists, the wild In-
ventions of Poets, the frigid Glosses of Histo-
rians, the interested Explications of Priests^
and the allegorical Refinements of Philoso-
phers and Speculatifls of all sorts, what gave
occasion, I say, to all that jarring and incon-
iistent chaos of Learning, which has, with so
much ostentation, been thrown out upon this
Subject, was the manner in which this antient
History was conveyed to posterity, that is, in
Hieroglyphical Pictures imitative of the events
above-mentioned, in Signs and Symbols rather
than in those more explicit Records of an
Al-