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in them, than the words vfliicii Mr Wilklns has furniihed me, be- 

 ing of an older dlaledl of the Shanfcrit, as we may fuppofe-, tlian 

 thofe of Mr Wilkins, which are from the Shanfcrit language rs ir is 

 at prefent. The words arcj Ta|.'?.a, the name of a Town in ■n'iii* ; 

 TKa.vKov;xcci, the name of a Nation in India f; Ku^caoi and 0;--jc cjkoi, 

 names of Nations alfo 4; ; 'To^:, o/r^j, the name of a River, and Tltu,- 

 'r?ci[/,xy the name of a City|j ; Mov(rix!x.voc, the niiTio ot a King in 

 India §; Ox,vo^ax,ai, the name of a Nation^; '•A^ic«ri7?./a, the name 

 of a Town ** ; 'TaXcc;, the name of a City ; n^i-;;, the name of a 

 country ■j"!"; and Cioirxi, the name of tiie peopie oi that country if:}:; 

 Efj^lBoXtfji.^, the name of a City ■[ l| ; 'T j a (T~tg and ''Ttpjca-ig, names of l\.i- 

 vers; Toipavig, Ta(po<r.^c, &c. Oilier words of the fame kind might 

 no doubt be found ; but thefe, 1 think, are fufficient to fhow, that 

 the names of places in India, the mod' antieut words in all lan- 

 guages, were originally Egyptian words, the Greek being, as I have 

 fhown §§, a dialect of the Egyptian ; which language being lofl 

 as well as the people, its affinity with the Indian can be no other- 

 wife proved, than by the afHnity of the Indian with the Greek, a 

 dialed: of the Egyptian ftill preferved. In fliort, there were, in an- 

 tient times, fo many Greek names of places and perfons in India, 

 that when I travel with Alexander through India, as his expedition 

 is defcribed by Diodorus Siculus and Arrian, I think I am travelling- 

 through Greece. 



This may fuffice, at prefent, to fliow the fimilarity both of the 

 found and the fenfe of the words of the two languages, though I 

 know that a great many more words of the fame kind might be pro- 



VoL. IV. T t . duced. 



* Arrian, p. 356. f Ibid. p. 380. J Ibid. p. 385. 



II Ibid. p. 386. § Ibid. p. 439, •[ DIod. Siculus, lib. 17. cap. 98. 



•* Ibid. cap. 103. ft Arrian, p. 103. 1| Diod, Siculus, cap. 104. 



nil Arrian, lib. 4. cap. 28. p. 329. 



§§ Vol. I. of Origin of Langu.nge, book 3. chap. 13. 2d eduion. 



