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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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IntercourCe •voith India , from the EJlabUshment of theRoman Dominion in Egypt , to the Canqitejl of thatKingdom by the Mahomedans.

tJ PON the conqueft of Egypt by the Romans,and the reduction of that kingdom to a provinceof their empire, the trade with India continuedto be carried on in the fame mode, under theirpowerful protection: Rome enriched with thefpoils and tribute of almoft all the known world,had acquired a tafte for luxuries of every kind.Among people of this defeription, the productions

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