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TRAVELS 



TO DISCOVER 



THE SOURCE OF THE NILE 



BOOK II. 



ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST AGES OF THE INDIAN AND AFRICAN 



TRADE THE FIRST PEOPLING OF ABYSSINIA AND ATBARA 



SOME CONJECTURES CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF LAN- 

 GUAGE THERE. 



CHAP. I. 



Of the India trade in its earliejl ages — Settlement of Ethiopia — Trogk- 

 dytes — Building of the frft Cities. 



TH E farther back we go into the hi (lory of Eaftern na- 

 tions, the more reafon we have to be furprifed at the 

 accounts of their immenfe riches and magnificence. One 

 who reads the hiftory of Egypt is like a traveller walking- 

 through its ancient, ruined, and deferted towns, where all 

 are palaces and temples, without any trace of private or 

 ordinary habitation. So in the earlieft, though now mutila- 

 ted 



