his wars with Hercules, who commanded an army of Egyptians and Ethiopians, behaved with great bravery and resolution. Receiving large reinforcements of Libyan troops, he cut off vast numbers of Hercules's men: but that celebrated commander having at last intercepted a strong body of Mauritanian or Libyan forces sent to the relief of Antaeus, gave him a total overthrow, wherein both he and the best part of his forces were put to the sword. This decisive action put Hercules in possession of Libya and Mauritania, and consequently of all the riches in those kingdoms; hence arose the fable, that Hercules finding Antaeus, a giant of an enormous size, with whom he was engaged in single combat, to receive fresh strength as often as he touched his mother earth when thrown upon her, at last lifted him up in the air and squeezed him to death. Hence likewise may be deduced the fable, intimating, that Hercules took Atlas's globe upon his own shoulders, overcame the dragon that guarded the orchards of the Hesperides, and made himself master of all the golden fruit. The golden apples, so frequently mentioned by the old mythologists, were the treasures that fell into Hercules's hands upon Antaeus's defeat, the Greeks giving the Oriental word ἀργον ῥιζεῖν, the signification affixed to their own term, μήλα, apples. After the most diligent and impartial examination of all the different hypotheses of historians and chronologers, relating to Atlas and Antaeus, we find none so little clogged with difficulties as that of Sir Isaac Newton. According to that illustrious author, Ammon, the father of Sefac, was the first king of Libya, or that vast tract extending from the borders of Egypt to the Atlantic ocean; the conquest of which country was effected by Sefac in his father's lifetime. Neptune afterwards excited the Libyans to a rebellion against Sefac; flew him, and then invaded Egypt under the command of Atlas or Antaeus, the son of Neptune, Sefac's brother and admiral. Not long after, Hercules, the general of Thebais and Ethiopia for the gods or great men of Egypt, reduced a second time the whole continent of Libya, having overthrown and slain Antaeus near a town in Thebais, from that event called Antea or Antropolis; this, we say, is the notion advanced by Sir Isaac Newton, who endeavours to prove, that the first reduction of Libya by Sefac happened a little above a thousand years before the birth of Christ, as the last by Hercules did some few years after.