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 151
... navigation , which cannot be extensively carried on without a knowledge of the magnet's powers , I have this strong and curious evidence to produce ; for , in the most venerable of their facred law - tracts , the In- ftitutes of Menu ...
... navigation , which cannot be extensively carried on without a knowledge of the magnet's powers , I have this strong and curious evidence to produce ; for , in the most venerable of their facred law - tracts , the In- ftitutes of Menu ...
Page 158
... navigation , that the im- portant discovery must be of far more ancient date than the year of our Lord 1260 , to which it is generally affigned , and by the means of Marco Polo , a man famous for his travels into the Eaft . Before I ...
... navigation , that the im- portant discovery must be of far more ancient date than the year of our Lord 1260 , to which it is generally affigned , and by the means of Marco Polo , a man famous for his travels into the Eaft . Before I ...
Page 201
... : THE WHOLE CONFIRMED BY EXTRACTS FROM THE INSTITUTES OF MENU , AND INTERSPERSED WITH STRICTURES ON THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION AND SHIP BUILDING IN THE EAST . A DISSERTATION , & c . GENERAL ARGUMENT . The A ...
... : THE WHOLE CONFIRMED BY EXTRACTS FROM THE INSTITUTES OF MENU , AND INTERSPERSED WITH STRICTURES ON THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION AND SHIP BUILDING IN THE EAST . A DISSERTATION , & c . GENERAL ARGUMENT . The A ...
Page 204
... Navigation and Ship- Building in Afia . IS SHALL commence this Differtation and the obfervations which I have to offer relative to the ancient commerce carried on between the natives of this ifland and those of Afia , but more ...
... Navigation and Ship- Building in Afia . IS SHALL commence this Differtation and the obfervations which I have to offer relative to the ancient commerce carried on between the natives of this ifland and those of Afia , but more ...
Page 207
... navigation , and of its fifter aftronomy , are univerfally ascribed by the ancients to the Phoenicians . We are informed by Sanchoniatho , in a fragment ex- tant in Eufebius , that Ousous , one of the * Bochart's Canaan , p . 709 . + ...
... navigation , and of its fifter aftronomy , are univerfally ascribed by the ancients to the Phoenicians . We are informed by Sanchoniatho , in a fragment ex- tant in Eufebius , that Ousous , one of the * Bochart's Canaan , p . 709 . + ...
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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