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To the Reader.
First, Becauſe it is received amongſt the Ancients, that he was the firſt that invented the Art of communicating Knowledg to the World, by Writing or Engraving. Now if ſo, then in all probability he was before Moſes; for it is ſaid of Moſes, that he was from[1] his childehood, skilled in all the Egyptian Learning, which could not well have been without the help of Literature, which we never read of any before that invented by Hermes. Secondly, He is ſaid by[2] himſelf, to be the ſon of Saturn, and by[3] others to be Scribe of Saturn. Now Saturn according to Hiſtorians, lived in the time of Sarug, Abrahams
