INDEX.

Spain , how that country happened to have the advantageand honor of difcovering America, 141. gold and fiiverncif* the only profitable articles they firft found in America ,t ttt 182. are obliged to colonize in order to improve theirdifcoveries, 18}.

mi t Spices , and aromatics, why much ufed by the ancients,

5 4- vaft modern confumpdon of them, 172.afc Strabo , his obfcure knowledge of India , 6?. his accountof the ifiand of Taprobana , 79. denies that Sefoftrisnti ever entered India , 195. evidences of his {lenderknowledge of India , 209. his account of the Cafpian;to fea, 210. how he juftifies his neglect of Hipparchus ,217. his free expofition of ancient theology, j 5 7. hisaccount of the ancient dyes, 356.the Sumatra , the ifiand of, vilited by the early Arabians,lidei 1 o 1.

ft s' Superfiition and religion, difcriminated , 315, origin offuperftition , 316. progrefs of, 321. pidure of Orientalfuperftition, 322. philofophy fatal to, 326.fa, SyUa , vaft quantities of fpices confumed in his funeralpile, 54.tk

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ina Tadmor in the defert, by whom built , and for what^ purpofe, 47. its ftupendous ruins, 48. its prefent ftate,

50.

m Tamerlane , his judicious choice of the feafon for hisk? Indian campaign, 196.

Taprobana, Strabo ’s account of that ifiand, 79. Pliny ’saccount of it, go. Ptolemy ’s account, 81. appears tobe the ifiand of Ceylon , 82. account given of this

ifiand by Cofmas Indicopleuftes, 91.

Tatta, great drought there, 196. vaft numbers of veffels^ for water-carriage there, 197.

Tea , has within a century become a neceflfary of life ina , many parts of Europe , 249. amazing annual importation

of, ibid.

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