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extracts are necessarily unconnected; and if not entirely conclusive 
to every reader, they will not, I trust, be deemed irrelevant to the 
general tendency of these volumes. 
It is remarked in the Horae Biblicae, that “ Sir William Jones 
traces the foundation of the Indian empire above 3800 years from 
the present time; the highest age of the Yajur Veda to 1580 years 
before the birth of Christ, or 100 years before the birth of Moses; 
and the highest age of the Institutes ot Menu, to 1280 years before 
the birth of our Saviour.” 
“ The Vedas contain one hundred thousand stanzas, of four 
lines each; they treat of divination, astronomy, natural philosophy, 
the creation of the world, religious ceremonies, prajmrs, morality, 
and piety; and include hymns in praise of the Supreme Being, 
and in honour of subaltern intelligences.” 
“ The geography of the Brahmins is admitted by all to be fan- 
ciful and absurd in the extreme: now, if the Brahmins could give 
so much loose to their imaginations in the severest of all sciences; 
if they could be so grossly ignorant in things which lay perpetually 
before them, how much more extravagance and error must be 
expected from them in the sciences of astronomy and chronology, 
as loosely as all those sciences have ever been treated in India?” 
“ Considering Hindostan, in the very largest sense in which 
that word is used, it answers to the India infra Gangem of the 
ancients; or the country bounded on the north by the Tartarian 
and Thibetian mountains, on the south by the sea, on the west 
by the Indus, and on the east by a supposed line extending to 
the north from the Ganges. The country bordering on the east- 
ern side of the Indus made a part of one of the satrapies of Darius 
