A N

HISTORICAL

DISQUISITI ON

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 theCAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

With an APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

Observations on the Civil Policy .— the Laws andJudicial Proceedings — the Arts — the Sciences —and Religious Institutions, of the INDIANS.

By WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D. D. F. R. 8. Ed,

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

BASIL:

Printed and fold BY j. J. TOURNEISEN,

MBCOXCII.