15S ESSAY ON THE SACRED ISLES &.e. 



The Chaturmurtti at Jaganndt'hat or fourfold image, consists of VisH" 

 3?u, his wife Subhadra', the Chacra, and Baladeva. 



The British Isles were considered in the west as another world, perfe6l 

 and complete in itself; but of smaller dimensions: hence the anonymous 

 geographer of Ravenna says, that philosophers of old used to call Britain 

 a microcosm. This is conforipable to the notions of the Hindus, who 

 say that it is another Mem, and exa6tly the half of it, in all its dimen- 

 sions. Divines in Tibet entertain exa6lly the same idea : for they likewise 

 call the elysium of Hopameh^ in the west, another world. These islands 

 are obviously the Sacred Isles of Hesiod, who represents them as situated 

 an immense way (p,Uei r^xe,) toward the north-west quarter of the old 

 continent/') From this most ancient and venerable bard I have borrowed 

 the appellation of Sacred Isles, as they are represented as such, by the 

 followers both of Brahma' and Budd'ha, by the Chinese, and even by the 

 wild inhabitants of the Philippine Islands, 



W Hesiod. Theog. y, 1014. 



