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An Historical Disquisition Concerning The Knowledge which the Ancients had of India : And The Progress of Trade with that Country prior to the Discovery of the Passage to it by the Cape Of Good Hope / By William Robertson, D.D.F.R.S. Ed. Principal Of The University, And Historiographer To His Majesty For Scotland : With an Appendix, Containing Observations on the Civil Policy - the Laws and Judicial Proceedings - the Arts - the Sciences - and Religious Institutions, of the Indians
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HISTORICAL DISQUISITION

CONCERNING

ANCIENT INDIA.

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Inter comfe •veith India , from the earliejl Times, untilthe Conqueji of Egypt by the Romans.

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iOEVER attempts to trace the operationsof men in remote times, and to mark the variousfteps of their progrefs in any line of exertion,will foon have the mortification to find , that theperiod of authentic hiftory is extremely limited.It is little more than three thoufand years fince theBooks of Mofes, the moil ancient and only ge-nuine record of what paffed in the early ages ofthe world, were compofed. Herodotus , the moil an-cient Heathen hiftorian whofe works have reached

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