AN LONDON, THE Univerfal History, FROM THE Earliest Account of Time. VOL. II. BOOK I. The ASIATIC Hiftory to the Time of ALEXANDER the Great. CHA P. III. SE C T. III. Of the Egyptian chronology to the time of Alexander W the Great. E closed the foregoing volume with the best account we could gather from the most credible hiftorians, of the antiquity, government, laws, religion, cuftoms, arts, learning, and trade, of the antient Egyptians. Our vouchers, for what we have advanced on these feveral fubjects, were Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, and Strabo, who all travelled into Egypt with no other view but to inquire into the origin, traditions, and records of that nation; and to acquaint themselves with the cuftoms and manners of the inhabitants. We fhall now proceed to the hiftory of the princes who reigned in Egypt from the moft early times to the final reduction of the country by Alexander, when the fevere prediction of the prophet was fulfilled, There A 2 fhall |