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The Scriptural History of the Earth and of Mankind; Compared with the Cosmogonies, Chronologies, and Original Traditions of Ancient Nations an Abstract and Review of Several Modern Systems with an Attempt to Explain Philosophically, the Mosaical Ac

The Scriptural History of the Earth and of Mankind; Compared with the Cosmogonies, Chronologies, and Original Traditions of Ancient Nations an Abstract and Review of Several Modern Systems with an Attempt to Explain Philosophically, the Mosaical Ac


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS LETTER II. fa) Page 208. W ITHOUT reckoning an ifland Atlantis in the Gulph of Egina, not far from Athens, there was alfo another ifland of that name between that of Eubcea and the Locrian coaft, detached as the antients fuppofed from thefe contiguous lands by a great inundation; or rather this fpot remained in the flreights when the ifland of Eubcea itfelf was torn from Breotiaby the irruption of the lake of Theffaly, which according to Herodotus formerly covered the plains of this laft country. This ifland Atlantis was conquered by the Athenians, but was foon after funk and almoft entirely deftroyed by an earthquake. Is it not this ifland which Plato, taking advantage of Egyptian tales, has tranfported beyond the ffreights of Gibraltar, in order to give us an ideal hiftory of felicity fpringing from virtue, and of punifh- ment and misfortune confequent to corruption ? It is true, one fees not how fuch an ifland could conquer Libya; but the inhabitants of an ifland in the Atlantic ocean were not more likely to make war on Egypt or Athens. Wars in the weftern world, yet thinly inhabited, were, in the times we fpeak of, that is to fay, about 3300 years ago, little more than thedefcents of reftlefs pirates who frequently changed their habitations, and made no long voyages, unlefs forced by ftorms beyond their knowledge. It is then much 4 moremore probable that the coafts of Egypt and the yet village of Athens fhould have been aflaulted by adventurers from an iftand in the Egean fea, than attacked by a great nation living beyond the columns of Hercules. Beyond the interior of Afia and Egypt, nations, forae centuries after formidable, were yet petty tribes compofed of a few families of adventurers. Fifty or a hundred perfons united to feek new fettlem...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217397513
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 164
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217397514
  • Publisher Date: 06 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 304 gr


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