I have now carried up the Chronology of the _Greeks_ as high as to the first use of letters, the first plowing and sowing of corn, the first manufacturing of copper and iron, the beginning of the trades of Smiths, Carpenters, Joyners, Turners, Brick-makers, Stone-cutters, and Potters, in _Europe_; the first walling of cities about, the first building of Temples, and the original of Oracles in _Greece_; the beginning of navigation by the Stars in long ships with sails; the erecting of the _Amphictyonic_ Council; the first Ages of _Greece_, called the Golden, Silver, Brazen and Iron Ages, and the flood of _Deucalion_ which immediately preceded them. Those Ages could not be earlier than the invention and use of the four metals in _Greece_, from whence they had their names; and the flood of _Ogyges_ could not be much above two or three ages earlier than that of _Deucalion_: for among such wandering people as were then in _Europe_, there could be no memory of things done above three or four ages before the first use of letters: and the expulsion of the Shepherds out of _Egypt_, which gave the first occasion to the coming of people from _Egypt_ into _Greece_, and to the building of houses and villages in _Greece_, was scarce earlier than the days of _Eli_ and _Samuel_; for _Manetho_ tells us, that when they were forced to quit _Abaris_ and retire out of _Egypt_, they went through the wilderness into _Judæa_ and built _Jerusalem_: I do not think, with _Manetho,_ that they were the _Israelites_ under _Moses_, but rather believe that they were _Canaanites_; and upon leaving _Abaris_ mingled with the _Philistims_ their next neighbours: though some of them might assist _David_ and _Solomon_ in building _Jerusalem_ and the Temple.