49© On ths Origin an® 



m the Ram&yani when we meet with his name again in the family 

 ©FRa'maj when we know, that the name is venerated in the higheft de- 

 gree, and given to a facred grafs, defcribed as aPoaby Koenig, which, 

 is ufed with a thoufand ceremonies in the oblations to fire, ordained by 

 Menu to form the facrificial zone of the Brahmans, and folemnly declar- 

 ed in the Veda to have fprung up foon after the deluge, whence the Paurd~ 

 nicks eonfider it as the briftly hair of the boar which fippor ted the globe; when 

 we add, that one of the feven dwipas, or great peninfulas of this earth, has 

 $he fame appellation, we can hardly doubt, that ths Cush of Mosss and 

 Va lmlc was the fame perfonage and an ancefior of the Indian rase.. 



From the teflimonies adduced in the fix laft annual difcourfes, and from 

 the additional proofs laid before you, or rather opened, on the prefent oc~ 

 cafion, it. feems to follow, that the only human family aker the flood efta- 

 blifhed themfelves in the northern parts of Iran-, that, as they multiplied,, 

 they were divided into three diftin£l branches, each' retaining little at firh%, 

 and lonng : the whole by degrees, of their common primary language, but 

 agreeing feverally on new expreffrons for new ideas > that the branch of 

 Ya'eet was enlarged' in many fcattered' moots over the north of Europe and 

 A/ia, diSufing themfelves as fer as the weftern andeaftem feas, and; atr 

 length in. the infancy of navigation, beyond them both; that they cultiva- 

 ted, no liberal arts, and had no -ufe of letters, but formed; a variety of dia- 

 lects,, as. their tribes were varioufly ramified j that, fecondly, the children- 

 ©f Ham, who founded- in Iran it fe)£ the. monarchy of the nrll: Chaldeans^ 



invented letters, obferved and named the luminaries of the firmament,, calw 

 <§ulated. th.2 known Indian period, of four hundred and thirty two thou fan d 

 %?ars % or 'an hundred and twenty repetitions of the faros, and contrived the 



old, fy Item, of Mythology, partly allegorical and partly grounded on: Lioia** 



