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DISSERTATION,

CONTAINING

The Principles and Authorities upon which the

Tables are founded\ J

CHAP. I.

Of the Antiquity and Inventors of JMoney .

HE Use of Money or stamps Metals in Com-merce has been very ancient, and perhaps the In-ventor of it is as hard to be discovered, as thoseof other Arts.

As it is usual in discourses of this nature to as-cend as high as possible, we shall acquaint theReader that the Inventor of Money was by someJe'wijh Writers believed to be Cain, Adam's eldest son, to whom* J°fiphus ascribes it: this Author tells you that Cain was the firstmonied man, that he taught his band luxury and rapine; andbroke the publick tranquility by introducing the use of Weightsand Measures. (The word %pyificLTOL in the Original may signify

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