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especially that of coining money ; which seems to have been 
unknown in Egypt, as it was in India until after the 
reign of the Seleucidae. The earliest Egyptian money is 
described as having been in rings, which were weighed 
when used as instruments of exchange. 
In addition to the arts, we may adduce some of the 
sciences as equally cultivated both by the Egyptians and 
by the Indians ; though the former are not supposed ever 
to have attained the same degree of proficiency as the latter. 
Thus, Geometry, in some degree Astronomy, which after- 
wards degenerated into Astrology, Music, and Medicine, 
were all cultivated by the Egyptians. Their medicine is 
said by some to have consisted only in the practice of 
magical arts ; notwithstanding that the Greeks adopted 
many of their more efficient remedies. The degree of pro- 
ficiency attained by them in each of the above sciences, is 
not easy, if at all possible for us now to ascertain. 
Besides the above arts and sciences, and perhaps still 
better calculated to show the resemblance between the 
ancient Egyptians and the present Hindoos; is the physiog- 
nomy, dress, and the representation of the different arts 
as practised by the former, and figured on their monu- 
ments. So great, indeed, is this resemblance, that it is 
hardly exaggeration to say, that they might be introduced 
into a book of modern travels, as representations of Hindoo 
artisans. As geologists from observation of recent phe- 
nomena, infer what must have occurred in the primeval 
ages of the world, so might we from investigating the 
processes of the arts as at present practised by the Hindoos; 
better understand the hints and descriptions in ancient 
authors, as well as the representations on ancient monu- 
ments, of those practised by the Egyptians. Their division, 
moreover, into castes, especially into the military and priest- 
hood, as well as the similarity in their divinities (v. Sir Wm. 
