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frequent offerings of animals sacrificed divi- 

 sion into tribes or casts their method of 

 cultivating their land having but few fences 

 following the same business as their fore- 

 fathers, and a variety of other customs, all 

 coinciding to show that India,, even now, re- 

 presents a country peopled by such as are 

 mentioned in our sacred history. 



Doctor Prichard i tikis learned researches in- 

 to the Physical history of man, makes the fol- 

 lowing observations. (f We set out in the 

 fc historical inquiry which has occupied the 

 fc last chapter, with the observation that the 

 tf traces of connexion which we have marked 

 <( between the Indians and Egyptians are so 

 " full and extensive, that they can be accoun- 

 (C ted for in 110 other way than by supposing 

 " these nations,, though distinctly separated at 

 ' ' the period of authentic history, to have for- 

 " med in an earlier age but one people. 



cc In the days of the patriarch Abraham two 

 <c great monarchies existed in the world, the 



