Indian Antiquities Or, Dissertations, Relative to the Ancient Geographical Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology, the Grand Code of Civil Laws, the Original Form of Government, the Widely-extended Commerce, and the Various and Profound Literature of Hindostan : Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, of Persia, Egypt and Greece...H. L.Galabin, 1801 |
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Page 57
... hundred years before Chrift , which might be the precife period when the first colonies began to migrate from Afia towards the weft , and very much builds up the hypothesis for which I contend , of the English being derived from an ...
... hundred years before Chrift , which might be the precife period when the first colonies began to migrate from Afia towards the weft , and very much builds up the hypothesis for which I contend , of the English being derived from an ...
Page 96
... Hundred Stones , represents the Sun's Progrefs through a Period of One Hundred Years , or a complete Century . - The leffer Circle of Thirty , the Druid Age . — The leaft " leaft of Twelve , the Period of Jupiter's Re- [ 96 ]
... Hundred Stones , represents the Sun's Progrefs through a Period of One Hundred Years , or a complete Century . - The leffer Circle of Thirty , the Druid Age . — The leaft " leaft of Twelve , the Period of Jupiter's Re- [ 96 ]
Page 118
... hundred stones , in allufion to the century ; of the two circular temples , inclofed in that grand area , the outermoft is compofed of thirty ftones , the innermoft circle of twelve , with an im- mense stone in the centre twenty - one ...
... hundred stones , in allufion to the century ; of the two circular temples , inclofed in that grand area , the outermoft is compofed of thirty ftones , the innermoft circle of twelve , with an im- mense stone in the centre twenty - one ...
Page 119
... hundred and eighty Roman feet . * Dr. Borlafe mentions four of these circles yet remaining in the hundred of Pen- weth , in Cornwall , † not eight miles asunder , which have nineteen ftones each , and he is of opinion they allude to the ...
... hundred and eighty Roman feet . * Dr. Borlafe mentions four of these circles yet remaining in the hundred of Pen- weth , in Cornwall , † not eight miles asunder , which have nineteen ftones each , and he is of opinion they allude to the ...
Page 125
... hundred and eight feet diameter , from out to out , confifting , when entire , of fixty ftones , thirty upright and thirty impofts ; of which remain only twenty - four upright , feventeen ftanding ftanding and feven down , three feet ...
... hundred and eight feet diameter , from out to out , confifting , when entire , of fixty ftones , thirty upright and thirty impofts ; of which remain only twenty - four upright , feventeen ftanding ftanding and feven down , three feet ...
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Abury æra afferted Afia Afiatic aftronomical againſt alfo alſo ancient antiquity Brahmins Britain Britiſh called Carthage Carthaginians celebrated circumftance coaft colonies commerce confiderable confifting Cornwall courſe cuſtom dæmon defcribed deity diftant Diodorus Diodorus Siculus Druids Eaft Egypt Egyptians erected eſtabliſhed extenfive facred fame fays feems feftival fent ferpent ferved fhall fhips fhore fhould filk filver fince firft firſt fituated flouriſhed folar fome formed fpecies ftate ftill ftones fubject fuch fuperftition fuppofed fymbol Gaul gold Greeks Gulph Hercules Herodotus hiftory immenfe India inftance iſland itſelf leaſt lefs leſs metal moft moſt muft muſt nation navigation neceffary northern obferved old Britons paffage paffed Perfian period Phoenicians Pliny prefent prieſts purpoſe race regions Reſearches reſpect rites Sabian ſcience Scythian ſpecies ſtate ſtill ſtone Stonehenge Strabo Stukeley temple thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion Tyre uſed vafes vaft veffels weft weſtern whofe whoſe worſhip