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bat one more equally complete, which was on the- 

 ceiling of a temple, in the middle of a tank before 

 the pagoda of Teppecolum, near Mindurah, of 

 which tank and temple Mr. Ward, painter in Broad- 

 fireet, near Carnaby-mirket, hath a drawing ; but 

 I have often met with the feverai parts in detached 

 pieces. 



From the correspondence of the figns of the zo- 

 diac which we at prefent ufe, and which we had, I 

 believe, from the Arabians or Egyptians, I am apt 

 to think that they originally came from India, and 

 were in ufe among the Bramins, when Zoroafter and 

 Pythagoras travelled thither, and confsquently 

 adopted and ufed by thofe travellers : and as thefe. 

 philofophers are ftill fpoken of in India, under the 

 names of Zerdhuril and Pyttagore, I mould alfo 

 hazard another idea, that the worfhip of the cow^ 

 which ftill prevails in India, was transplanted from 

 thence to Egypt. But this is only conjecture; and 

 it may with almofr. equal probability be faid, that 

 Zoroafter or Pythagoras carried that worfhip to India. 



However, I think there is an argument ftiil in fa- 

 vour of India for its antiquity, in point of civilization 

 and cultivation of the arts and iciences ; for it is 

 hardly in difpute that all thefe improvements came 

 from the eall to the weft; and, if we may be al- 

 lowed to draw any conclufions from the immenfe 

 buildings now exifcing, and from the little of the 

 inferiptions, which can be interpreted on feverai of 

 the choultrys and pagodas, 1 think it may fafely be 

 pronounced, that no part of the world has more 

 marks of antiquity for arts, fciences, and civiliza- 

 tion. 



