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and the Euphrates, the Armenian mountains and the borders of 
India. 
What, however, is still more decisive, and confirms the accu- 
racy of the Hebrew historian, is, that the literature of India, lately 
explored, records the establishment of the Brahminical religion in 
Iran, previously to its adoption in Hindustan. We are informed, 
that a mode of faith and worship, essentially different from that of 
Zoroaster, was anciently professed in Persia, and continued to be 
secretly entertained by many eminent men, long after the general 
predominance of the latter. 
“ That Iran, understood in its true and enlarged signification, 
was the country from which the three original and distinct races 
of men first separated, is rendered still more probable, from its 
central situation. It was from this part of the globe, that the 
adventurous progeny of Japhet could best transport themselves to 
those countries, which, on account of their being separated from 
Judea by the sea, are emphatically styled in the writings of Moses, 
4 the isles of the Gentiles;’ in contradistinction to Asia, which to 
Palestine was strictly continental. It was nearest to this quarter 
that the peaceful descendants of Shem settled themselves in Arabia, 
where so many of their names may now be discovered; and it 
was from this quarter, that the Ammonian race, so famed for 
daring exploits, subdued the vast and fertile countries of India, 
Ethiopia, and the countries situated on the Nile; where they have 
left so many vestiges of their scientific excellence, and of their 
martial prowess.” 
“ From an accurate survey of the Brahminical religion, as we 
find it established in India, it is impossible not to perceive its 
