76 JACONOT MUSLINS. 
“¢ T agree with you, that the remark is in- 
teresting, and the superstition for the fancy 
pleasing, because they associate themselves 
with the history of the tillage of the earth, 
and with the primary and sweetest mterests 
of mankind. By the way, considering this 
Indian sanctity of the Antelope, or of the 
Orix, the Egyptian name, I am half-tempted 
to conjecture a relationship to the city and 
temple of Orixa, or Orissa, upon the coast 
of the Deccan, the site of the worship of the 
Divinity under his great and venerable name 
of Jaca, Xaca, Shaca, or Saca Nath, more 
commonly written Jaggernath ; and which 
our merchants even convert into Jaconot, 
and Jaconet, in distinguishing the muslins 
that are the peculiar manufacture of its in- 
habitants.” 
