For so the primitive Tongue might in time branch out into several parts of _Europe_ and _Asia_, and thereby the first or Hebrew Tongue which seems to be ingredient into so many Languages, might have larger originals and grounds of its communication and traduction than from the Family of _Abraham_, the Country of _Canaan_ and words contained in the Bible which come short of the full of that Language. And this would become more probable from the Septuagint or Greek Chronology strenuously asserted by _Vossius_; for making five hundred years between the Deluge and the days of _Peleg_, there ariseth a large latitude of multiplication and dispersion of People into several parts, before the descent of that Body which followed _Nimrod_ unto _Sinaar_ from the East. They who derive the bulk of European Tongues from the Scythian and the Greek, though they may speak probably in many points, yet must needs allow vast difference or corruptions from so few originals, which however might be tolerably made out in the old Saxon, yet hath time much confounded the clearer derivations. And as the knowledge thereof now stands in reference unto our selves, I find many words totally lost, divers of harsh sound disused or refined in the pronunciation, and many words we have also in common use not to be found in that Tongue, or venially derivable from any other from whence we have largely borrowed, and yet so much still remaineth with us that it maketh the gross of our Language. The religious obligation unto the Hebrew Language hath so notably continued the same, that it might still be understood by _Abraham_, whereas by the _Mazorite_ Points and Chaldee Character the old Letter stands so transformed, that if _Moses_ were alive again, he must be taught to reade his own Law. The Chinoys, who live at the bounds of the Earth, who have admitted little communication, and suffered successive incursions from one Nation, may possibly give account of a very ancient Language; but consisting of many Nations and Tongues; confusion, admixtion and corruption in length of time might probably so have crept in as without the virtue of a common Character, and lasting Letter of things, they could never probably make out those strange memorials which they pretend, while they still make use of the Works of their great _Confutius_ many hundred years before Christ, and in a series ascend as high as _Poncuus_, who is conceived our _Noah_. The present Welch, and remnant of the old Britanes, hold so much of that ancient Language, that they make a shift to understand the Poems of _Merlin_, _Enerin_, _Telesin_, a thousand years ago, whereas the Herulian _Pater Noster_, set down by _Wolfgangus Lazius_, is not without much criticism made out, and but in some words; and the present Parisians can hardly hack out those few lines of the League between _Charles_ and _Lewis_, the Sons of _Ludovicus Pius_, yet remaining in old French.