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IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE WORLD. 

 INDIA IN GREECE: or Truth in Mythology. By E. Pococke, Esq. 



Illustrated by Maps of India and Greece, post 8vo. Price 12s. cloth. 

 CONTENTS. --The Colonization of Greece, Palestine, and Egypt, by Indian Tribes 

 from the Punjab, Cashmir, Thibet, and the Himalayan Mountains; the Tartarian 

 and Rajpoot Tribes in Egypt and Palestine; the Greek Mythology rendered plain 

 Histoiy upon Geographical evidence ; Crishna, the Hindoo Chief, the same as the 

 Apollo of Delphi; Cadmus, a Budhist Missionary; the Wars of the Grand Lama in 

 Greece; Repression of the Solar Worship ; the Nomenclature of the Ancient Geo- 

 graphy of Hellas, shown to be Sanscrit in Greek disguise. Maps of Greece and India 

 (emonstrate the Parent States and their Hellenic Settlements. 



" We never met with a volume in which there was so much of bold assertion, cleverly sustained 

 by startling proof. We have all been tolerably familiar with a conviction of the national unity of 

 Egypt, Greece, and India 5 but no one has yet so satisfactorily settled this question as Mr. 

 Pococke. He has hit upon an intellectual California, and his ' diggins' are auriferous." Gentle- 

 man's Magazine. 



" The name of Pococke is auspicious on the part of a writer on eastern antiquities ; and, sooth 

 to say, this is a very remarkable book. It aims at proving that Greece was colonized from India. 

 (Ve a're not prepared to assent with perfect confidence to this conclusion, but we freely admit that 

 Mr. Pococke has distinctly and satisfactorily traced a vast variety of close affinities between 

 names and places, and also between modes of thinking, in the two countries. . . . For some 

 time past, scholars have been well aware that there subsist very striking affinities between the 

 Sanscrit and Greek languages. But it remained for Mr. Pococke to systematize the whole sub- 

 ect and this he has done, "with occasional extravagance, and with a tendency, here and there, 

 o unwarrantable dogmatism, but with great learning, with gushing enthusiasm, and with very 

 considerable success." Scottish Guardian. 



4 This is a work of prodigious industry and research, bold and original in its views and specula- 

 tions, and daringly startling in its range of inquiry and prehistoric investigation. The author is 

 well known as an accomplished oriental scholar, and whether, in the estimation of the learned, 

 le may be considered to have established his general theory or not, the work claims an earnest 

 and respectful attention." Glasgow Citizen. 



" Like the discovery of America by Columbus, now that it is known, people marvel that the 

 western continent was not sooner found. So it is with Mr. Pococke and his investigations into the 

 origin of the Greeks and their mythology, and the Hebrews and their country ; we can only 

 wonder that their common parentage was not sooner discovered." Forth British Mail. 



" The whole of the chapters on Budhism are admirably written, replete with the most intense 

 interest. The satisfactory dispersings of old and impenetrable mists, is something quite marvel- 

 lous and mirthful. We regret that we cannot reproduce the sparkling pages, which show the 

 corrupt forms in the Romish worship are but old Lamaic and Budhistic forms. When we add 

 that Mr. Pococke takes nearly every name of note in Grecian history that he shows for nearly 

 every locality in Greece a locality correspondingly named in India, possessing people of corres- 

 )onding manners and religion we surely have said enough to demonstrate that the book must 

 >e, what it really is a rich and welcome addition to the library of every thinking man. We 

 mow of no work that has appeared within our recollection, so likely to set men thinking as the 

 one before us." Church and State Gazttte. 



' Therefore we recommend Mr. Pococke's volume to the curious student as one of interest and 

 erudition ; if it fail to gain converts, if it excites many a smile, on the other hand it will suggest 

 thought and amuse the scholar." Leader. 



" No one, after the perusal of Mr. Pococke's work, can doubt the substantial truth of his theory. 

 Some of his facts and illustrations may be regarded as open to objection, but the historical value 

 of his discoveries is placed beyond question. The whole of our ancient history will require to be 

 re-written. A new meaning must henceforth be attached to the word mythology. The old idea 

 ias no existence in fact. Not only will this discovery effect an entire revolution in the narrative 

 of ancient history, but a new element is introduced into the very philosophy of history itself. Now 

 ;hat the discovery is made, one wonders that it has been unknown for so many ages. What piles 

 of erudite literature, extending over a period of little less than 3000 years, is consigned to the old 

 ' ! wand of Mr. Pococke!" Witness. 



