TRAVELS 



TO DISCOVER 



THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 



BOOK II. 



ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST AGES OF THE INDIAN AND AFRICAN 



TRADE THE FIRST PEOPLING OF ABYSSINIA AND ATBARA 



SOME CONJECTURES CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF LAN- 

 GUAGE THERE. 



CHAP. I. 



Of the India trade in its earliejl ages — Settlement of Ethiopia — Iroglo^ 

 dytes — Building ofthefrjl Cities* 



TH E farther back we go into the hiftory of Eaftern na- 

 tions, the more reafon we have to be furprifed at the 

 accounts of their immenfe riches and magnificence. One 

 who reads the hiltory of Egypt is like a traveller walking 

 through its ancient, ruined, and deferted towns, where all 

 are palaces and temples, without any trace of private or 

 ordinary habitation. So in the eariieft, though now mutila- 

 ted 



