Hercules _of_ Tyre, _part of his history. Was a pastor king in_ Egypt. _Retired thence with 240000 men, about the latter end of_ Abraham’_s time. The chronology of those pastor kings fixed, somewhat more accurately than in_ Usher _and_ Cumberland. Hercules _king in_ Egypt, _or the_ Pharaoh _with whom_ Abraham _conversed there. He was a very great navigator: a learned prince, an astronomer, a chronologer. The_ Hercules Ogmius. _What the word means. He knew the secret of alphabet writing, and the true length of the solar year. He learn’d probably of_ Abraham. _He carried colonies about the_ Mediterranean, _and into the_ Ocean, _and brought the Druids into_ Britain. _He built many patriarchal temples; some of serpentine form: particularly at_ Acon _in_ Palestine. _He had a son called_ Isaac. _The evidences of_ Hercules _planting_ Britain. _Of_ Apher _his companion, grandson of_ Abraham, _giving name to_ Britain. _Remains of_ Hercules _his people, called_ Hycsi, _in_ Britain. _Hence we conclude our Druids had the use of Writing before_ Cadmus _carried it into_ Greece. Not much later in time than _Phut_, lived that other celebrated hero of antiquity, the _Egyptian_, _Phœnician_, _Tyrian Hercules_; whom I take to be a principal planter of _Britain_. He was of _Phœnician_ extract, born in _Egypt_ and king there, founder of _Tyre_, and the most famous navigator: the first that pass’d thro’ the _Mediterranean_, and ventur’d into the great _Ocean_. I have wrote his history copiously, from which I must recite some deductions only, useful to our present purpose. _Hercules_ call’d _Melcartus_, was son of _Demaroon_, as _Sanchoniathon_ the _Phœnician_ writer informs us. _Demaroon_ was intituled _Zeus_, whence the _Greeks_ made _Hercules_ the son of _Jupiter_. _Demaroon_ according to our _Phœnician_ author, was son of _Dagon_ or _Siton_ son of _Ouranus_ (who in truth is _Noah_) and begat after the flood, but it was not his business to mention the flood. _Hercules_ then may reasonably be suppos’d to live to the same age as _Noah_’s other great grandsons; if we say grandsons, it alters not the case. We need not be concerned at the seeming great distance between _Hercules_ in the genealogy and _Apher_: for from _Sanchoniathon_ we may prove that _Melchisedec_ was _Arphaxad_. He conversed with _Abraham_. _Josephus_ in his first book against _Apion_ has preserv’d a valuable and venerable piece of antiquity, call’d _Manethon_, the _Egyptians’ Dynasties_. This has given the learned much entertainment. I have considered it too with attention, in what I have wrote concerning the _Mosaick_ chronology. I shall here recite some conclusions from it, for my present purpose. [Illustration: TAB. XXXVI. _A Brittish bridle_ _Stukeley_ _A Brittish Urn_ _Stukeley_ _Chyndonax’ Urn_