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and Egypt. — The days alfo confecrated to the fame planets and in the fame order. 

 — The conformity betwixt the two nations, as to the figns of the Zodiac, moft ex- 

 traordinary. — Of the Religion of India. — The fame diftinftion made there, betwixt 

 the Popular Religion of the country and the Religion of Philofophers. — The fall of 

 man maintained by the Indians, and a future ftate of rewards and punilhments, — 

 alfo the doftrine of the tranfmigration of minds, which came originally from Egypt. 

 — ^The diet and manner of life of the Indians, the fame as in antient Egypt. — They 

 eat no flefh, but of the beafts which they facrifice. — ^They drink no wine or ftrong 

 liquors ; and neither did the Egyptians in very antient times. — The fame regard for 

 the animal life in India as in Egypt — The killing of fome animals was a capital crime 

 in Egypt, and is fo in India. — There a mulft is impofed for the killing of any ani- 

 mal, even Tygers A refemblance betwixt the two nations alfo in their feftivals, and 



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The conformity in fo many particulars, betwixt Egypt and India, could not have bcea 

 by accident, — nor could each of thefe nations have been the original inventors.— The 

 one muft have copied from the other. — The queftion then. Which was the original 

 which the copy? — No third nation, from which thefe two nations could have taken 

 their inftitutions and cuftoms, — fuch a conformity could not have been produced in 

 the ordinary way of commerce. — The two nations, therefore, muft have mixed and 

 Kved together for fome time. — The Indians did not go to Egypt. — Therefore the 

 Egyptians came to India. — This proved not by argument only, but by fafts; a par- 

 ticular account given by Diodorus of the expedition to India by Oliris, — alfo of that 



of Sefoftris to the fame country. — Both thefe expeditions by land But Sefollris was 



not the firft Egyptian King that went to India. — This attefted not only by the facred 

 books of the Egyptians, but by tradition preferved among the moft learned of the 

 Indians. — In that tradition a memorable ftory preferved, of Ofu-is having faved his 

 army from a peftilential difeafe by carrying it to a hill called M«^o,-. — Hence the 



Greek fable. — Summary of the evidence of Ofiris having gone to India. Objeftion 



to the account of Ofiris's expedition, that Herodotus fays nothing of it Tliis an- 



fwered. — The tradition alfo mentions that Hercules was in India, and clothes and 

 arms him very properly.- The abfurdity of the Greek fable, concerning the cloath- 

 ing and armour of Hercules. — Memorials of Ofiris in India, to be feen in the days of 

 Alexander, and even of Diodorus Siculus — Strabo did not beheve in the expedition 

 of Ofiris.— A reafon given for that.- The Egyptians could not go to India to learn 

 Civility and arts;— thefe they muft have K-.d -rfore,- and the Indians muft have 

 learned them from them— This proved ^ '-'nek men, with wooUy 



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