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exhibited by the German traveller, (that is Kempfer), all the Ger- 

 mans, to whom I fliowed it, immediately recognifed with a mixture 

 of pleafure and enthufiafm *. 



There is a memorial of another Egyptian Dsemon preferved in thofe 

 caftern countries, not by any ftatue or bufl, but in a way more proper 

 for fuch a wicked Daemon. It is by the name of Typhon, which they 

 give to a dreadful hurricane, that very often rages in the fca betwixt 

 China and Japan. This information I had from more than one tra- 

 veller in China. And to this may be added, what Sir William Jones 

 tells usf , of the abhorrence which the Indians have of the colour 

 red, which was the colour of Typhon, as Diodorus informs US4: , 

 and was therefore abhorred by the Egyptians. 



That the Indians make the fame diflindtion that the Egyptians do 

 betwixt the religion of the philofopher and that of the people, I 

 have obferved in the preceding chapter ||, where 1 have faid, that, 

 in their facred books, the unity of God is maintained, and that they 

 believe alfo in the doctrine of the Trinity, and in other dodtrines of 

 theology, which were maintained by the Priefts in Egypt. And 

 as they got their philofophical religion from Egypt, fo alfo they got 

 their popular : For Sir William Jones tells us§, that the Trident of 

 Neptune, the Eagle of Jupiter, the Satyrs of Bacchus, the Bow of 

 Cupid, and the Chariot of the Sun, are all to be feen in India at this 

 day. Thefe, Sir William fays, are all to be found in Greece and 

 Italy ; but it is certain, that the Greeks, as well as the Romans 

 derived their religion from Egypt : And as the Indians never had any 



communication, 



* Ibid. p. 380. 



f Ibid. p. 378. 



X Page 291. 



II Ibid. p. 292. 



§ Afiat. Refearch. vol. i. p. 424. 



