The Preface.
Having ſhown us from whom all thoſe People deſcended, who are ſpread over the Face of the Earth, from the Caſpian and Perſian Sea, to Hercules his Pillars (as the Ancients ſpeak) that is, all the World over.
In ſhort, whatſoever is moſt ancient in thoſe Countries, which are furtheſt from all Commerce with his own, is clearly explained by Moſes : whoſe Writings therefore cannot but be highly valued by all thoſe who will apply their Minds ſeriously to the ſtudy of them. For if they, who now have no regard to him, would but compare what he hath written on the fore-named Subject, with what they find in thoſe Heathen Writers, whom they have in the greateſt veneration, they would be forced to confeſs him to be a Man of wonderful Underſtanding; and could not reaſonably doubt he had an exact knowledge of the Truth of thoſe things, whereof he wrote. To this purpoſe, I remember, the famous Bochartus ſpeaks, who hath given the greateſt Light to the Tenth of Geneſis, wherein theſe things are delivered.
And truly, it is ſome wonder, That they who ſo muh cry up the Egyptian Learning, ſhould not eaſily grant (unleſs they will believe all Hiſtorians but only thoſe whom we account Sacred) that
