as Sydyk, must neceffarily ftand in the false relationship of brother to Mifor or Mizraim, yet, as Agruerus, he ftill preferves his true relationship of grandfather to him. In fhort, the whole confufion appears to have arisen from three fources: Sanchoniatho's confcioufnefs that ten generations had actually flourished before the deluge; his perceiving that the line of Cain confifted of only eight descents; and his certainty that Noah was the firft poftdiluvian. The following table may perhaps throw additional light upon a suppofition, which it is more eafy to conceive in the mind, than to exprefs clearly in words. 1 San Sanchoniatho's firft genealogical table compared with and adapted to Scripture. The ten generations of the line · Sanchoniatho. 4. Cainan. 8. Methuselah. 9. Agruerus. 10. Amynus-Magus. 11. Mifor. The eight generations of the line of Cain, fpeci- fore that catastrophè, and as the eleventh or first after it. therefore, as Sydyk, reckons both as the tenth or last man bethe ten generations of Seth having preceded the flood. Noah dyk, is the eleventh when confidered as the first postdiluvian, reference to the eight generations of Cain; but Noah, or Syn Noah, or Agruerus, is the ninth, when confidered with a I have obferved, that Sanchoniatho closely connects Mifor or Mizraim, and Taautus or Thoth, with Sydyk and the Cabiri; and that he fuppofes Cronus to have proceeded fouthward to the land of Egypt. From this circumstance I have little doubt but that the eight primitive great gods of that country were no other than the arkite Cabiric Ogdoad. Herodotus mentions a deep and broad lake near Buto, in which, according to the Egyptians, there was a floating island. On this island was a large temple, dedicated to Apollo, and furnished with three altars. It was not fuppofed however to have been always in a floating ftate, but to have loft its original firmness in confequence of the following circumftance. When Typhon, or the Ocean P, was roaming through the world in quest of Horus, or Apollo, the mythological fon of Ofiris, Latona, who was one of the primitive eight gods, and who dwelt in the city Buto, having received him in truft from Ifis, concealed him from the rage of that deftructive monster in this facred ifland, which then first began to float 9. Thefe eight gods • Vide fupra p. 39. P Plutarch exprefsly afferts the identity of Typhon and the fea. Plut. de Ifid. et Ofir. p. 363. 9 Herod. lib. ij. cap. 156. the the Egyptians conceived to be prior to the twelve, whofe names and worship were adopted by the Greeks and, in allufion to the origin of the adoration, which was paid to them, they were accustomed to reprefent them, not standing upon dry ground, but failing together in a fhip'. As for the floating ifland mentioned by Herodotus, it was probably only a large raft conftructed in imitation of the Ark; while Horus, whofe temple was built upon it, was the fame person as his fuppofed father Ofiris', or Noah worshipped in conjunction with the Sun. The three altars, I apprehend, were dedicated to the triple offspring of that patriarch; and the word Buto is obviously deducible from Bu-Do, the divine heifer, which was one of the most ufual fymbols of the Ark ", whence the city Buto will fignify the city of the arkite heifer. The word occurs very frequently both in the mythology and ¶ Ibid. cap. 46. Τες δε Αιγυπλιες τες δαίμονας άπανίας εκ έςαναι επι τερεν, αλλά Barras EπI @holov. Porphyr. apud Cudworth's Intell. Syft. P. 249. s See Bryant's Anal. vol. ii. p. 329. Adonim, Attinem, Ofirim, et Horum, aliud nihil effe quam Solem. Macrob. Saturn. lib. i. cap. 21. " I cannot think with Mr. Bryant, that the word Buto fignifies the ark, any further than as it primarily fignifies an ox. geo geography of the ancients. Thus we read of a hero denominated Butes, who, according to Nonnus, was no other than Argus, or the god of the Ark *. 8κ επι Βετης a Άργος ακοίμητοισι πολυσπερεεισιν οπώπαις Κλεψιδαμε Κρονίδαο νεωτερα λεκίρα φυλασσει. There was a city called Buta in Achaia2; a feaport intitled Butua in Dalmatia ; and a town, which bore the name of Buthos, in Egypt. There was likewife a city of Illyricum, upon which Cadmus, as we are informed by Stephanus of Byzantium, bestowed the appellation of Buthoè from the Egyptian Buto; and another town in Ionia, or the land of the arkite dove, which was called Buthia. Perhaps alfo the Scottish isle of Bute may once have been the feat of the fame fuperftition, and may once, together with its fifter island Arran, have beheld the wild rites, which were celebrated in honour of * Butes was the fame as Buddha, or Mercury, whose character fhall be confidered at large hereafter. Vide infra chap. v. y Dionyf. lib. viii. p. 146. z Diod. Bibl. lib. xx. p. 828. a Plin. Nat. Hift. lib. iii. cap. 22. b Ibid. lib. v. cap. 10. C Steph. Byzant. de Urb. p. 236. d Ibid. Aran, |