<; nificence, which he immediate! ?d in r: 



' s latmg his court, and his retinue, and in bee 



t; his feat of government. By this mean 



* s be :on celebrated bevond all the 



u earth; and an account of its 



u been broHtj a ::mrt of 



* 1 . fo mu: 



** lb rrs to t : .he Sea to let ioofe 



*' his . :nd overflow a place which impic 



*' pretended tc vie in fplendor wich their celeftial m 



_ns. This command he o. ^nd the city was 



4; at once overflowed by that fu nor has 



. ever Cnce been able to rear its head." 



Such is the mode in which the Bramins choofe to 

 account for the fignal overthrow of a place devoted to 

 their wretched fuperkiuons. 



It is not, however, improbable, that the reft of this 

 hiftory may contain, like the mvtholo^vof Greece and 



I great ceal of real matter of fact, though 

 vellopedindarkanc -prefematiens. 1 



the difguife of thefe we may diicern fome ill 

 records of grea: events, and of revolution 

 happened in remote times; and they perhaps merit our 

 attention the more. . not likely that any records 



of ancient B I but in this c and 



fantaftic drefs. Their poets feem to have been their 

 only ..ns, as well asdr and whatever I 



relate, is wrapped up in this burlefc eg . fet off, by 

 way of ornamer. umftances hugely incred 



and abfurd, and all this without any date, and in no 

 other order or method, than fuch as the poe: 

 fuggefted, and found raoft convenient. Never! 



-omparing names and grand events, recorded by 

 them, with thole interfperfed in the hiftories oi 01 

 nations, and by calling in the affiftance of ancient 

 monuments, coins, and infcriptioi on (hall 



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