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but one more equally complete, which was on the 
ceiling of a temple, in the middle of a tank before 
the pagoda of Teppecolum, near Mindurah, of 
which tank and temple Mr. Ward, painter in Broad- 
ftreet, near Carnaby-market, hath a drawing ; but 
I have often met with the feveral parts- in detached 
pieces. 
From the corrdpondence of the figns of the zo- 
diac which we at prefent ufe, and which we had, I 
believe, from the Arabians or Egyptians, I am apt 
to think that they originally came from India, and 
were in ufe among the Bramins, when Zoroafler and 
Pythagoras travelled thither, and confequently 
adopted and ufed by thofe travellers : and as thefe 
philofophers are dill fpoken of in India, under the 
names of Zerdhurft and Pyttagore, I fhould alfo 
hazard another idea, that the worfhip of the cow, 
which dill prevails in India, was tranfplanted from 
thence to Egypt. But this is only conjecture ; and 
it may with almod equal probability be laid, that 
Zoroader or Pythagoras carried that wordiip to India. 
Plowever, I think there is an argument dill in fa- 
vour of India for its antiquity, in point of civilization 
and cultivation of the arts and iciences ; for it is 
hardly in difpute that all thefe improvements came 
from the ead to the wed ; and r if we may be al- 
lowed to draw any conclufions from the immenfe 
buildings now exiding, and from the little of the 
infcriptions, which can be interpreted on feveral cf 
the choultrys and j pagodas, I think it may fafely be 
pronounced, that no part of the world has more- 
marks of antiquity for arts, fciences, and civiliza- 
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