CONTENTS. to; 



BOOK II. 



ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST AGES OF THE INDIAN AND AFRICAN 



TRADE THE FIRST PEOPLING OF ABYSSINIA AND AT- 



BARA — SOME CONJECTURES CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF 

 LANGUAGE THERE. 



CHAP. I. 



Of the Indian Trade in its earliejl Ages—Settlement of Ethiopia 



Troglodytes— Building of thefrjl Cities, P. $6$ 



CHAP. II. 



Saba and the South of Africa peopled — Shepherds, their particular 

 Employment and Circumjlances—Abyffinia occupied by feven Strait- 

 ger Nations — Specimens of their fever al Languages— Conjectures 

 concerning them, -,gi 



CHAP. III. 



Origin ofCharaclers or Letters— Ethiopic the frfl Language— How 

 and why the Hebrew Letter was formed. 41 1 



VoL ' r - l CHAP. 



