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Though we cannot fix the time of the conquest of the White Island by 

 ^e^Sacas; yet we find it asserted in the PurdiCas, that they were iii 

 possession of it, at least of a great part of it, in the time of CiirsHNA. 

 I Iiave shown before, that CiirsHNA lived 1370 B. C, and that he was born 

 probably 1429 before our era. He married at the age of twenty, and 

 his son 'Samba was about twenty also, when eighteen families of 

 Br'aJunens went from the White Isla?id to India, and these were 'Sacas. 

 This partial conquest is attested by the Paurd?iics: for the king of 

 Indra-puri^ whose daughter married the son of king 'Saga, was not a^ 

 !Scica or saxon, but a native prince of the White Island,- 



With regard to emigrations and colonizations ^ w^ are apt to entert-aiii- 

 ideas, which, in my humble opinion, are far from being corre(5l. We 

 generally suppose tliat no emigration can take place, but when a country 

 is overstocked with inhabitants ; and then colonization takes place, only 

 by approximation,, that is to say, the nearest empty spot is colonized first. 

 It appears, however, from history, that in general the numerous tribes, 

 which emigrated, did not always advance in so slow, and regular a 

 manner. Many other reasons, besides that of an overgrown population,. 

 d<2terrained them to emigrate. Factions at home, feuds between the 

 leading men of a tribe, variety of opinion in religious matters, which 

 Always, but more particularly at these early times, ran very high, oblig- 

 ed the weakest, or those more peaceably inclined, to emigrate. These 

 would naturally remove as far as convenient, to distant countries, leaving 

 a vast trai^t of uncultivated lands, between them and their oppressors, 

 like a barrier. These barriers became at last part of the gcncraf system 

 of politics in Europe, and were made use of by the most fierce and war- 

 like tribes hi Germany, Tacit us has however greatly exaggerated the 



