Assisting to civilize the Greeks, they then became Greeks; their posterity merged and lost amid the native population.
VII.

Perhaps, in all countries, the first step to social improvement is in the institution of marriage, and the second is the formation of cities.

As Menes in Egypt, as Fohi in China, so Cecrops at Athens is said first to have reduced into sacred limits the irregular intercourse of the sexes [19], and reclaimed his barbarous subjects from a wandering and unprovidential life, subsisting on the spontaneous produce of no abundant soil.

High above the plain, and fronting the sea, which, about three miles distant on that side, sweeps into a bay peculiarly adapted for the maritime enterprises of an earlier age, we still behold a cragged and nearly perpendicular rock.

In length its superficies is about eight hundred, in breadth about four hundred, feet [20].