﻿V. 



A PROOF THAT THE HINDOOS HAD THE 

 BINOMIAL THEOREM 



BY MR. REUBEN BURROW. 



THE Islands in the Bay of Bengal are, many of 

 them, covered with shells and marine produc- 

 tions to a great height, and there are beds of large 

 smooth pebbles near the Herdwar, some hundreds of 

 feet above the present level of the Ganges; the sea 

 has therefore gradually been retiring, and consequently 

 the position of the Equator was formerly farther north 

 than it is at present in this part of the earth : and if a 

 few similar observations were made in other countries, 

 it is evident that the ancient situation of the pole 

 upon the surface of the earth might be determined 

 sufficiently near for explaining many difficulties and 

 paradoxes in geographical antiquities. For this purpose 

 also it would be adviseable to have permanent meri- 

 dian lines drawn in high northern latitudes, to be com- 

 pared in succeeding ages, and also to have marks cut 

 upon rocks in the sea, to shew the proper level of the 

 water. 



In the aforesaid position of the Equator, the sr'nds 

 of Tartary were inhabitable and the Siberian climates 

 temperate ; the deserts of the Lesser Bukharia were 

 then part of the seat of the Paradise of Moses j and 

 the four sacred rivers of Eden went through India, 

 China, Siberia, and into the Caspian Sea, respectively. 

 This appears from a Bramin map of the world in the 



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