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other customs, all coincide in shewing that India, 

 even now, represents a country peopled by such as 

 are mentioned in our sacred history. 



Doctor Prichard, in his learned researches into 

 the physical history of man, makes the following 

 observations : " We set out in the historical 

 " inquiry which has occupied the last chapter, 

 " with the observation that the traces of con- 

 " nexion which we have marked between the 

 " Indians and Egyptians are so full and extensive, 

 " that they can be accounted for in no other way 

 " than by supposing these nations, though 

 " distinctly separated at the period of authentic 

 " history, to have formed in an earlier age but 

 " one people. 



" In the days of the patriarch Abraham, two 

 " great monarchies existed in the world the 

 " empire of Elam and the kingdom of Egypt; 

 " the dominions of the former bordering on the 

 " territories of the latter. The subjects of the 

 " first were the Indo Persians of Hindus ; the 

 " inhabitants of the second were the Egyptians." 



It is wonderful to think that their manners and 

 customs have not changed during such a long 



