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fufpended that it is always in his eye. The twelve pillars also, that uphold the canopy, are set round with rows of fair pearl and of an excellent water, that weigh from fix to ten carats a piece. At the distance of four feet, upon each fide of the throne, are placed two umbrellas, the handles of which are about eight feet high, covered with diamonds; the umbrellas themselves, being of crimson velvet, embroidered and fringed with pearl. This is the famous throne which Timur began and Shah Jehaun finished, and is really reported to have cost a hundred and fixty millions and five hundred thousand livres of our money."*

For an account of the curious mythological representation of the planet SANI, or SATURN, with his ring formed of ferpents, the reader will please to confult page 605 of this volume and the subsequent remarks.

The enumeration of the pages is continued from the fixth volume, which closed with 440. The reason is, that the first Differtation in this volume was originally intended to have come into the preceding one;

* Tavernier's Indian Travels, tom. iii. p. 331, edit. 1713.

but, on making up the book, it was found that the addition would have rendered that volume difproportionably large it was, therefore, referved for the prefent.

P. S. There having been of late a confiderable demand for the two volumes of Indian Antiquities (long out of print) which contain the Differtation on the Afiatic Trinities, to accommodate the public, the author has, at a very great expenfe, reprinted the whole of that Differtation in one volume, which, with all the plates illuftrative of the doctrine, may be had at Mr. Gardiner's, Prince's Street, Cavendish-Square, price twelve shillings. The impreffion confists of only 250 copies, and it can on no account be again printed distinct from the larger work to which it properly belongs.

The Binder will place the print of the MoGUL THRONE oppofite the title; and that of the PLANET SANI before the Differtation on the Literature of the Indians.

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DISSERTATION

ON THE QUANTITY OF

BULLION AND COINED MONEY

IN THE ANCIENT WORLD;

COMPRISING A SHORT HISTORY OF THE GOLD AND SILVER MINES OF ASIA,

AND

A SURVEY OF THE IMMENSE TREASURES

POSSESSED BY THE

ANCIENT SOVEREIGNS OF INDIA.

A

DISSERTATION, &c.

SECTION I

the

HAVILAH, the Land of Gold, -the ancient Mines of ARABIA and ETHIOPIA, Treafures in Bullion of the ancient EGYPTIAN Sovereigns, the golden SOFALA, the Source of the Wealth of the TYRIANS and SOLOMON, the former, however, had another abundant Source in the Mines of SPAIN, the PERU and POTOSI of Antiquity. - A Description, from the Prophet EZEKIEL, of the Magnificence of ancient Tyre. The Sources of the Wealth of the ASSYRIAN or BABYLONIAN Empire investigated, and that Wealth exemplified in the Ornaments of the Temple of BELUS and the DEA SYRIA. Brief Strictures on coined Money and the DARICS ftruck at BaBYLON. — The Empire of Asia, and the Cur

rent