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On E g y p t and the Nile 



Jamadagni, 



Jamadagni, Abhaydnds, 



Frdchinds y - Darda'na's, 



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Tdmrdnds, 



NdJJjtrdnds, 



Bbunjdnds, 



Craunchdnds, 



Abhayajdtdnds % 





Vainabhfitdnds^ 



Tecdnds, 



Bbahands, 



Traicayanyas,. 



Avaddidnas; 



The river, here named Vitajld, and vulgarly Jelam, is the Hydafpes of the 

 Greeks: a nation, who lived on its banks, are called Dardaneis, by Dion Y- ; 

 srus (a) , and the Grecian Dardanus was probably the fame with 

 Darda'na'sa, who travelled into "Egypt with many affociates. We find 

 a race of Trojans in Egypt; a mountain, called anciently Troicus, and now 

 Tora, fronted Memphis , -and at the foot of it was a place actually named. 

 Troja, near the Nile, "fuppofed to have been an old fettlement of Trojans ,, 

 who had fled from the forces of Menelausj but Ctesias, who is rather 

 blameable for credulity than for want of veracity, and moil of whofe fables 

 are to be found in the Pi/rdns, was of a different opinion ; for he afferted, 

 according to Di on or Us of Sicily, that Troja in Egypt was built by Trojans, 

 who had come' from AJfyria under the famed Semi r amis (b), named 

 Sami'rama' by the ancient Hindu writers; and this account is confirmed by 

 Herodotus, who fays, that a race of Dardanians were fettled on the 

 banks of the river Gyndes near the Tigris (c), where, I imagine, Darda na'sa 

 and his affociates hril eftabliihed themfelves after their departure from India (d J.. 



{a) Perieg. v. n 38. 



{b) B. 2. 



(r) B. 2. C. 



(J) Iliad Y. v. z 15. 



