A Vindication of the Ancient History of Ireland: Wherein Is Shewn, the Descent of Its Old Inhabitants from the Phaeno-Scythians of the East; The Early Skill of the Phaeno-Scythians in Navigation, Arts and Letters; Several Accounts of the Ancient Irish Bar

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The annals of Ireland tellify, that the ancient Irilh were the defcendants of Magog', cbnfequently they were Scythians. As fuch they have been eileemed an illiterate and lavage people. The Authors of the Univerfal Hif tory, to fupport a fyllem, and too clofely adhering to Greek authorities, deny the life of letters to the Scythi ans; yet when they come to treat of the Tartars (the defcendants of thefe Scythians), they confefs, it is more than probable, that the Tartar's had the ufeof letters, from the earlicil times; and a modern author infifls, that the Irifh had not letters, before the coming of Patrick into the Ifland the reader will find luch undeniable proofs of the ancient Irilh having had the ufe of letters, and of having been {killed in all the l'ciences of the times, as will leave great room to regret the dellruaion of records, monuments, &c. By our zealous Chrifhan millionanes on their arrival in that Ifland.

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