The eternity of the world / By G.H. Toulmin.

  • George Hoggart Toulmin
Date:
1785
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Credit: The eternity of the world / By G.H. Toulmin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * , 18 THE ETERNITY • . * t and diftindlion, whofe particular fituations in the Eaft Indies gave them accefs to fuch in¬ telligence, had long opened to us the un- queftionable antiquity of the people of that country. Circumllances have, however, re¬ cently tranfpired, which hold out lights ftill more intereftin'g. The trandation of the Gentoo * laws evi¬ dently carries fo curious a fubjedt to what fome would be diipofed to call a fingular ex¬ tent. Yet fuch limited antiquity can never furprife any but thofe who, from the general nature of things, have not previoudy been prepared to look for fome fuch incident. The judicious trandator of thefe interefting tradls, ftruck with the feenes in which he had been long and intimately converfant, in his preliminary treatife has made fome pertinent obfervations. * The Hindoos, as well as the Chinefe, fays he, have ever laid claim to an antiquity infi- * By Mr. Halhed. k / nitely
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