The Scriptural History of the Earth and of Mankind: Compared with the Cosmogonies, Chronologies, and Original Traditions of Ancient Nations; an Abstract and Review of Several Modern Systems; with an Attempt to Explain Philosophically, the Mosaical Account of the Creation and Deluge, and to Deduce from this Last Event the Causes of the Actual Structure of the Earth, in a Series of LettersR. Faulder, 1797 - 602 pages |
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... iflands , or from the coafts of the greater Afia , mix- ing with thefe , feem to have taken the common name of Pelafgi . Part of thefe , reftlefs and unfettled , tranfplant themselves again to the oppofite coafts of Afia minor . In ...
... iflands , or from the coafts of the greater Afia , mix- ing with thefe , feem to have taken the common name of Pelafgi . Part of thefe , reftlefs and unfettled , tranfplant themselves again to the oppofite coafts of Afia minor . In ...
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... iflands of Crete and Rhodes , muft , fome ages after , have contained fif- teen millions of people . Even at this day , after 400 years oppreffion under the depopulating government of the Ottomans ; at this day , when the aftonishing ...
... iflands of Crete and Rhodes , muft , fome ages after , have contained fif- teen millions of people . Even at this day , after 400 years oppreffion under the depopulating government of the Ottomans ; at this day , when the aftonishing ...
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... ifland of Calypfo , Eoa , ifle or promon- tory of the fouthern point of Italy . From thence he departs in fearch of the mouth of the inferior regions . Mr. Pope , a no less enlight ... iflands no other. which STRUCTURE OF THIS GLOBE . 47.
... ifland of Calypfo , Eoa , ifle or promon- tory of the fouthern point of Italy . From thence he departs in fearch of the mouth of the inferior regions . Mr. Pope , a no less enlight ... iflands no other. which STRUCTURE OF THIS GLOBE . 47.
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... iflands no other pro- spect to the weftward but that of fea , in which they faw the fun fet , may have fpread the report in Greece , that the extremity of that horizon was the real bounds of the ocean , where that luminary funk in the ...
... iflands no other pro- spect to the weftward but that of fea , in which they faw the fun fet , may have fpread the report in Greece , that the extremity of that horizon was the real bounds of the ocean , where that luminary funk in the ...
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... ifland to fettle in Afia minor . Soon after , Hercules might come into Greece ; and Tyrrhenus , the Lydian , fettle at Tyr- rhene , in fouthern Italy ( zzz ) Sefac , or Sethos , or Sefenchofis , the fame as Sefoftris , to whom the names ...
... ifland to fettle in Afia minor . Soon after , Hercules might come into Greece ; and Tyrrhenus , the Lydian , fettle at Tyr- rhene , in fouthern Italy ( zzz ) Sefac , or Sethos , or Sefenchofis , the fame as Sefoftris , to whom the names ...
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