Shem; Shem, Ifaac ; Ifaac, Levi ; Levi, Amram; and Amram, Mofes. Which shows how improbable it is, and how little grounds there are to fufpect that Mofes might be any ways impofed upon in the feveral Accounts deliver'd by him in his Writings, by reafon of the great Distance between the Time he liv'd in, and that wherein those Events happen'd, which he relates.

This, Sir, is, I think, a full and exact Account of the Years in ufe before the Flood; and which, I hope, will prove fatisfactory to you. The Arguments I have brought in favour of the Longevity of the Antedilu vian Fathers, are, in my Opinion, fo plain and fo ftrong, that they put the Matter out of all doubt. I fhall therefore add nothing further, but fubmitting the whole to your Judgment, close this long and tedious Epiftle with affuring you that

I am,

SIR, &c.

FINI S.

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