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HISTORICAL DISQUISITION

CONCERNING

ANCIENT INDIA.

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Intercourse "coith India ., from the Establishment of theRoman Dominion in Egypt, to the Conquest of thatKingdom by the Mabomedans.

U PON the conquest of Egypt by the Romans, 8and 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 the,spoils and tribute of almost all the known world,had acquired a taste for luxuries of every kind.Among people of this description, the productions

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