A N

HISTORICAL

DISQUISITION

CONCERNING

' The Knowledge which the ancients had of

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INDIA;

AND THE

PROGRESS of TRADE with that COUNTRYprior to the Difcovery of the Paffage to it by theCAPE OF GOOD HOPE .

With an APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

Obfervations on the Civil Policy •— the Laws andJudicial Proceedings — the Arts — the Sciences —*and Religious Inftitutions, of the INDIANS.

By WILLIAM ROBERTSON , D. D. F. R. S. Ed.

PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY , AND HISTORIOGRAPHERTO HIS MAJESTY FOR SCOTLAND .

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Printed and fold BY j. J. T 0 U r n e IS E n.

MDCCXCII.