CONTENTS. Ixxxi 



BOOK II. 



ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST AGES OF THE INDIAN AND AFRICAN 



TRADE THE FIRST PEOPLING OF ABYSSINIA AND AT- 



BARA SOME CONJECTURES CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF 



LANGUAGE THERE, 



CHAP. I. 



Of the bidian Trade in its earliejl Ages — Settlement of "Ethiopia--* 

 Troglodytes — Building of thefrjl Cities \ P. 36$ 



CHAP. n. 



Saba and the South of Africa peopled — Shepherds, their particular 

 Employment and Circumjlances—Abyjfmia occupied by feven Stran- 

 ger Nations — Specimens of their fever al Languages— Conjectures 

 concerning them, 38 1 



CHAP. III. 



Origin of Characters or Letters — Ethiopic the firf Language How 



and why the Hebrew Letter was formed, 4 T 



Vol. I. l CHAP, 



