CONTENTS. The Worship of Achor, and Acoron, the God-fly, &c. The true Place ascertained where Ahaziah sent to enquire 63 A more determinate Proof of the Author's Opinion Frequent Prohibitions of this Worship The Miracle of Flies ascertained Instances concerning Locusts, and their Depredations Of the Deities invoked in such Calamities The Ninth Plague~PALPABLE Darkness CONTENTS. Concerning the Purport of the Second Miracle Of Moses an Oracle and a reputed Divinity vii OF EGYPTIAN RITES AND OF THE COLONIES BY WHICH THEY WERE INTRODUCED VERY EARLY INTO GREECE. As some of the evidences, concerning the religion and customs of Egypt, are taken from those which prevailed in Greece; it may be proper to prove, that these customs of the Grecians were certainly borrowed from the former country: and at the same time to shew, at what intervals, and by what persons, they were introduced. For if the rites alluded to were of late date, or doubtful origin, their authority would be of little weight: and no just inference could be made from them. But it will be found, that a near relation subsisted of old between the two nations: that the one was in a great degree constituted by colonies from the other: that these emigrants came over to Hellas in times of very high anB |