Observations upon the plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians: in which is shewn the peculiarity of those judgments, and their correspondence with the rites and idolatry of that people. To these is prefixed, a prefatory discourse concerning the Grecian colonies from Egypt / By Jacob Bryant.

  • Bryant, Jacob, 1715-1804.
Date:
1794
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Credit: Observations upon the plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians: in which is shewn the peculiarity of those judgments, and their correspondence with the rites and idolatry of that people. To these is prefixed, a prefatory discourse concerning the Grecian colonies from Egypt / By Jacob Bryant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    great degree conjlituted by colonies from the other : that thefe emigrants came over to Hel- las in times of very high antiquity: mojl of them long before the fuppofed era of T’roy, and be- came fup ertor to the original inhabitants. SChey brought with them the religion and rites of the people, from whence they came. We may there- fore from the Jlream judge of the fountain. Of fomc early and particular Migrations. Firf then it will be proper to few that Greece, according to the traditions of the natives, was in great meafurepeopledjrcni Egypt. Di- odorus Siculus tells us, that fame of the princi- pal perfons upon record among the Athenians were from this 1 country: and that the Atheni- ans in general were from 1 Egypt. Ehe Pelo- • ponnefe was for the mojl part peopled by Dorians : and the ancient leaders of thefe Dorians, ac~ 1 TEyovBvai fa km tow 'Hyepovuv tiva; Aiyv^rua^ 1rafX toi$ Afav&icuj. Diodor. Sic. 1* i. p. 2^. Rhodomunni. 2 Kcu t«j AOvvctw fa Qaaiv airouas eivai Scanty ruv si Aiyums. Ibid. p. 24* 6 cording