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Jorviis, Liber* Triumphal ; and both nations had records 

 or traditionary accounts of his giving laws to men, and 

 deciding their contefts ; of his improving navigation 

 and commerce; and, what may appear yet more ob- 

 fervable, of his conquering India, and other countries, 

 with an army of Satyrs, commanded by no lefs a per- 

 fonage than Pan ; whom Lilius Giraldus (on what au*- 

 ihority I know not) aflerts to have refided in Iberia, 

 " when he had returned (fays the learned Mythologifl) 

 <; from the Indian war, in which he accompanied 

 " Bacchus.'" It were fuperfluous in a mere efiay, to 

 run any length in the parallel between this European 

 God and the fovereign Ayodhyd, whom the Hindus 

 believe to have been an appearance on earth of the Pre- 

 ferving Power; to have been a conqueror of the higheft 

 renown, and the deliverer of nations from tyrants, as 

 well as of his confort Sua from the giant Rdvan, king 

 of Lane a ; and to have commanded in chief a numerous 

 and intrepid race of thofe large Monkeys which our 

 naturali'fts, or fome of them, have denominated Indian 

 Satyrs. His General, the Prince of Satyrs, was named 

 Hanumat, or with high cheek-bones ; and, with work- 

 men of fuch agility, he loon raifed a bridge of rocks 

 over the fea, part of which, fay the Hindus, yet re- 

 mains ; and it is, probably, the feries of rocks to which 

 the Mufelmans, or the Portvgvefe, have given the foolifh 

 name of Adam's (it fhould be called Rama's) Bridge. 

 Might not this army of Satyrs have been only a race 

 of mountaineers, whom Rama (if fuch a monarch ever 

 exifted) had civilized"? However that may be, the large 

 breed of Indian Apes is at this moment held in high 

 veneration by the Hindus* and fed with devotion by the 

 Brdhmans, who feem, in two or three places on the 

 banks of the Ganges, to have a regular endowment for 

 the fupport of them. They live in tribes of three or four, 

 hundred, are wonderfully gentle, (I fpeak as an eye- 

 witnefs,) and appear to have fome kind of order and 

 fubordination irt their little fylvan polity. We mwll not 

 i omit, 



