We took notice before, that these shepherds who quitted _Egypt_ under the conduct of our _Hercules_, call’d themselves _Hycsi_, as _Manethon_ informs us in _Josephus & Eusebius in chronol._ The word imports _royal shepherds_, _valiant_, _freemen_, _heroes_. Now we find the remains of this very name in the south-western part of our island, in _Worcestershire_, even to the _Roman_ times, and still further, even to the time of venerable _Bede_. They were called _Huiccii_, to which _Orduices_ and _Vigornienses_ is synonymous. And all three words mean the same thing, as the great _Baxter_ shews in his glossary, _Antiq. Britan. voce Orduices_, _Iceni_, _Huiccii_, &c. And by all accounts our old _Britons_ lov’d that same free, shepherd’s life, which the old _Canaanites_ did about _Abraham_’s time, as describ’d in scripture. Bishop _Cumberland_ is elaborate upon it. I take the _Irish_, and ancient highland _Scots_, to be the remains of the original _Phœnician_ colony. My learned friend, Dr. _Pocock_, when he was in _Ireland_, observ’d a surprizing conformity between the present _Irish_ and the _Egyptians_, and that in very many instances. These considerations, added to what I said in _Stonehenge_, are enough to persuade us, that our _Hercules_ had a considerable hand in peopling _Britain_. [Illustration: TAB. XL. _The antient Symbols of the deity._ the deity thus exprest on the imposts at Persepolis. _thus upon Chinese gates._ _thus in Egyptian monuments._ _on asardonyx in Pignor. mens. Isiaca. P.20._ _isiac table._ _isiac table._ _isiac table._ _isiac table._ _isiac table._ _Reverendissimo Prœsuli Iohanni Archiepiscopo Cantuarensi. humillime d.d. W. Stukeley._] CHAP. XIV. _Part of_ Cadmus _his history, who was a builder of serpentine temples. He was son of_ Canaan _called_ Agenor. _He was a_ Horite _or_ Hivite, _call’d_ Kadmonite _in scripture._ Hivite _signifies a serpent. Mount_ Hermon _denominated from his wife_, Psal. cxxxiii. 3. _“like as the dew of_ Hermon, _which fell on the hill of_ Sion.” _Correct it_, Sirijon. _Another correction in the translation of our bible_, “Canaanite _in the house of the Lord of hosts,” read_ merchant. _’Tis a prophecy not attended to_, Zech. xiv. 21. _The ancient_ greek _fables of sowing serpents’ teeth; of_ Cadmus _and his wife being turn’d into serpents, and the like; are form’d from their building serpentine temples. Not to be wonder’d at so much, when our country-people have the very same reports of_ Rouldrich _stones; of the_ Weddings, _another Druid temple in_ Somersetshire; _of_ Long Meg and her daughters, _another in_ Cumberland; _and most firmly believe, that they were men and women turn’d into stones. The mythology of the ancients not to be despis’d, but its original meaning sought for._