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writers whose works may be .easily pros’ 
eured, and who hve nearer to our situ- 
ation, If we had possessed equal access 
to eastern. writers, or had sufficiently 
esteemed them, we should have been led 
to think that some early tribes settled far 
east in Asia. It is not improbable that 
certain names of fathers of nations re- 
corded in Scripture, are preserved to this 
very time, in places of which we have 
some, though by reason of their remote 
Situation, perhaps imperfect, informa- 
tion.* Captain Wilford, in an Essay on 
Evypt and the Nile, has given, from the 
Indian Puranas, some account of the first 
settlement of nations after the flood. 
* It is related in the Padman-Purana, 
that Satyavrata,t whose miraculous pre- 
servation from a general deluge is told at 
Jength in the Matsya, had three sons, the 
eldest of whom was named Jyapeti, or 
“Lord of the Earth;” the others were 
Charma and Sharma, which last words 
are, in the vulgar dialects, usually pro- 
mounced Cham and Sham, as we fre- 
‘quently hear Kishn for Krishna. The 
royal patriarch, for such is his character 
in the Puran, was particularly fond of 
Tyapeti, to whom he gave all the regions 
to the north of Hlamalaya or the Snowy 
- Mountains, which extend from ‘sea to 
sea, and of which Caucasus is a part; to 
Sharma he allotted the countries to the 
s)uth of those mountains: but he cursed 
Charma; because, when the old monarch 
was accidentally inebriated gvith a strong 
liquor made of fermented rice, Charma 
laughed, and it was’ in consequence of 
his father’s imprecation that he became 
a slave to the slaves of his brother.” 
“The children of Charma travelled a 
long time, until they arrived at the bank 
of the river Nila, or Cali, in Egypt; and 
a Brahmin informs me, that their Journey 
began after the building of the Padma- 
Mandira, which appears to be the tower 
of Babel, on the banks of the river Cu- 
mudvati, which.can be no other than the 
Euphrates.”{ These extracts are cor- 
roborauve of the geography. of Moses, 
aud prove that the geographical docu- 
ments preserved to us in-Holy Writ, are 
in perfect unison with the most ancient 
histories of the people who, after the in- 
spired writers, possessed the most au- 
thentic sources of information. They 
also shew, that the whole race of man- 
s 
* Taytor’s Sacred Geography. 
+ Noah. 
f Asiatic Researches. 
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kind did not migrate in a western direc- 
tion after the flood. If we adopt that 
situation of Paradise, and of the first 
settlement of Noah after the flood, which 
appears in the Indian accounts, and 
which is placed much farther east than 
has been hitherto supposed, in the same 
proportion we facilitate the population 
of the east of Asia. We must suppose 
that in ancient times, migratory colonies 
were influenced by natural causes, as 
they are at present; and we cannot but 
observe that the courses of rivers must 
have been at that time as they are now— 
the guides of settlers, aud of inhabitants 
in a state of progress. If we inspect the 
map of Asia, we shall perceive that most 
of the considerable streams issue from 
Caucasus; and that from this mountain; 
larvely taken, the course of these 
streams may be considered as marking 
the course of mankind to remote parts 
of this continent. In fact, they diverge 
all sides; south to India, east to 
China, north to Siberia, and west 
towards the Caspian Sea.* If it should 
be thought, as some have supposed, that 
Shem took no part in the building of 
Babel, this will afford an additional argu« 
ment in favour of the opinion that tie 
whole race of mankind did not migrate in 
a western direction. 
Ravenstonedale, 
June 11, 1810. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AVING been lately a witness to 
E the very great labour, expense, 
and frequent disappointment, attendant 
on the making of Galvanic troughs in the 
common way, with wood, and the joints 
covered with cement, I am induced to 
propose, through the medium of your 
most respectable and widely-circulated 
Journal, an idea that struck me of sub- 
stituting troughs made of earthenware, 
for the above-mentioned purpose. 
They could be constructed with only 
one or two cells in each piece, by which 
means they might be afforded very cheap; 
and by placing avy number of those 
pieces in continuation im a simple box 
or trough, made for the purpose, the 
power could be increased to any degree 
required. 
Cionmell, 
June 24, 1810. 
J. RoBinsone 
RopertT Davis. 
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