INDEX.

Spain j how that country happened to have the advatltagdand honor of discovering America, 141. gold and silverthe only profitable articles they first found in America,

18 2. are obliged to colonize in order to improve theirdiscoveries, 1 8 J •

Spices , and aromatics , why much used by the ancientsj;4. vast modern consumption of them, 172.

Strabo , his obscure knowledge of India, 63. his accountof the island of Taprobana , 79. denies that Sesostrisever. entered India , 19;. evidences of his slender

knowledge of India , 209. his account of the Caspiansea, 210. how he justifies his neglect of Hipparchus,217. his free exposition of ancient theology, 557. his

. account of the ancient dyes, 336.

Sumatra , the island of, visited by the early Arabians,

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Superstition and religion, discriminated, 313. origin ofsuperstition, 316. progress of, 321. picture of Orientalsuperstition, 322. philosophy fatal to, 326.

Sylla , vast quantities of spices consumed in his funeralpile, 34.

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Tadmor in the desert, by whom built , arid for whatpurpose, 47. its stupendous ruins, 48- its present state,to.

Tamerlane , his judicious choice of the season for hisIndian campaign, 196.

Taprobana , Strabo’s account of that island, 79. Pliny’saccount of it, Ho. Ptolemy’s account, 8 l. appears to'be the ffland of Ceylon, 82. account given of this

island by Cofmas- Indicopleustes, 91.

Tatta, great drought there, 196. vast numbers of vesselsfor water-carriage there, 197.

Tea, has within a century become a necessary of life inmany parts of Europe, 249. amazing annual importation«f, ibid.

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