places, and built new towns, as Car, Apis, &c. and Haemon, the son of Pelasgus, Reigned in Haemonia, afterwards called Thessaly, and built towns there.  This division and subdivision has made great confusion in the history of the first Kingdoms of Peloponnesus, and thereby given occasion to the vain-glorious Greeks, to make those kingdoms much older than they really were:  but by all the reckonings abovementioned, the first civilizing of the Greeks, and teaching them to dwell in houses and towns, and the oldest towns in Europe, could scarce be above two or three Generations older than the coming of Cadmus from Zidon into Greece; and might most probably be occasioned by the expulsion of the Shepherds out of Egypt in the days of Eli and Samuel, and their flying into Greece in considerable numbers:  but it’s difficult to set right the Genealogies and Chronology of the Fabulous Ages of the Greeks, and I leave these things to be further examined.

Before the Phoenicians introduced the Deifying of dead men, the Greeks had a Council of Elders in every town for the government thereof, and a place where the elders and people worshipped their God with Sacrifices:  and when many of those towns, for their common safety, united under a common Council, they erected a Prytaneum or Court in one of the towns, where the Council and People met at certain times, to consult their common safety, and worship their common God with sacrifices, and to buy and sell:  the towns where these Councils met, the Greeks called [Greek:  demoi], peoples or communities, or Corporation Towns:  and at length, when many of these [Greek:  demoi] for their common safety united by consent under one common Council, they erected a Prytaneum in one of the [Greek:  demoi] for the common Council and People to meet in, and to consult and worship in, and feast, and buy, and sell; and this [Greek:  demos] they walled about for its safety, and called [Greek:  ten polin] the city:  and this I take to have been the original of Villages, Market-Towns, Cities, common Councils, Vestal Temples, Feasts and Fairs, in Europe:  the Prytaneum, [Greek:  pyros tameion], was a Court with a place of worship, and a perpetual fire kept therein upon an Altar for sacrificing:  from the word [Greek:  Hestia] fire, came the name Vesta, which at length the people turned into a Goddess, and so became fire-worshippers like the ancient Persians:  and when these Councils made war upon their neighbours, they had a general commander to lead their armies, and he became their King.