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HISTORICAL DISQUISITION

CONCERNING

ANCIENT INDIA.

SECTION I.

Intercourse •with India , from the, earliest Times, untilthe Conquest of Egypt by the Romans.

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OEVER attempts to trace the operationsof men in remote times, and to mark the varioussteps of their progress in any line of exertion,will soon have the mortification to find , that theperiod of authentic history is extremely limited.It is little more than three thousand years since theBooks of Moses, the most ancient and only ge-nuine record of what passed in the early ages ofthe world, were composed. Herodotus, the most an-cient Heathen historian whose works have reached

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SECT.

I.