﻿306 ON THE ANTIQUITY OF THE INDIAN ZODIAC, 



years old. Having therefore proved what I engaged to 

 prove, I will close my essay with a general observation. 

 The result of Newton s researches into the his:ory of 

 the primitive sphere was, " that the practice of obser- 

 " ving the stars began in Egypt in the days of Amnion, 

 " and was propagated thence by conquest in the reign 

 ts of his son Sisac, into Afric, Europe, and Asia ; 

 " since which time Atlas formed the sphere of the Ly- 

 <e bians ; Chiron, that of the Greeks ; and the ChaU 

 " deans, a sphere of their own." Now I hope, on 

 some other occasions, to satisfy the public, as I have 

 perfectly satisfied myself, that " the practice of ob- 

 " serving the stars began, with the rudiments of civil 

 " society, in the country of those whom we call ChaU 

 " deans ; from which it was propagated into Egypt, 

 " India, Greece, Italy, and Scandinavia, before the 

 " reign of Sisac or Sacya, who by conquest spread a 

 tl new system of religion and philosophy from the 

 cc Nile to the Ganges about a thousand years before 

 <c Christ ; but that Chiron and Atlas were allegorical 

 ** or mythological personages, and ought to have no 

 " place in the serious history of our species.'* 



