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pians (of Africa). Those upon the southern coast resemble them "most: for they are very black, and their hair also is black: but they are not so flat-nosed; nor have they woolly hair. They, who are more to the north, have a greater resemblance to the Egyptians. Strabo describes them in the same manner; and says that the southern Indians were very like the Ethiopians. μεσημβρινοι τοις Αιθίοψιν εισιν ὁμοιοι κατα την χροιαν κατα δε την οψιν, και την τριχωσιν τοις άλλοις. γαρ ελοτριχεσι δια την υγρότητα τε αερος. Οι δε βορειοα τεροι τοις Αιγυπτιοις. They might well be like the nations specified: for they were colonies from Chaldea; colonies chiefly of Cuthites, who settled at different times in India. These writers all concur in shewing their likeness to the Ethiopians whereas they were Ethiopians. Herodotus speaks of them plainly by that name: and says, that they differed in nothing from their brethren in Africa, but in the straitness of their hair:

99 Vincentius Bellovacensis mentions two Indian nations particularly professing the rites of Bacchus, one of which was named Albarachuma. Al-bara-Chuma means the sons of Chum or Cham; and that they were the sons of Cham may be inferred from Eusebius: Τε δε Χαμ πλεισα μεχρι και νυν εθνη εσιν εν αποςασία κατα τε τας Ινδίας και Αιθιοπίας, κ.τ.λ. Chron. p. 13,

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μεν γαρ απ' ήλιε Αιθίοπες ιθύτριχες εισι. They extended from Gedrosia to the Indus, and from thence to the Ganges, under the name of Ethiopians, Erythreans, and Arabians. When Nearchus, by the appointment of Alexander, -sailed down the Stour, an arm of the Indus, the first nation which he encountered was that of the Arabians. They resided, according to Arrian, below Carmania, in the mouth of the great river, near the island Crocale. 3 Προσοικεει δε ταυτη εθνος Ινδικον, οι Αραβίες καλεομενοι. They lived upon the river Arabis, by some called which they had given name.

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1 Οι μεν γαρ απ' ήλιε Αιθιοπες ιθυτριχες εισι· οι δε εκ της Λιβύης ουλότατον τριχωμα εχεσι παντων ανθρωπων. Hesiod. 1. 7. c. 70. p. 541.

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Æthiopum Gymnosophistæ mentioned by Hieronymus. 1. 4. in Ezechiel. c. 13.

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Arrian. Hist. Indic. p. 336. Oras tenent ab Indo ad Gangem Palibothri: a Gange ad Colida (or Colchida) atræ gentes, et quodammodò Æthiopes. Pomp. Mela. 1. 3. c. 7. They worshipped Zivs OμCpios. Strabo. 1. 15. p. 1046. He mentions the promontory Tamus, and the island Chruse. Tamus was the name of the chief Egyptian Deity, the same as Thamuz of Syria.

4 Αραβίται μεν δε εθνος, και τετο αυτονόμον των περί τον Αραβίου Horaμov veμoμerwy. Arrian. Expedit. 1. 6. p. 260. Of the Oritæ, ibid. and

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THE Grecian writers, finding that the Ethiopians and Cutheans of this part of the world were not the original inhabitants, have very properly distinguished them from those who were Aborigines; but they have been guilty of a great mistake, in making these Aborigines the Indi, and separating the latter from the Ethiopes. The Cuthites, styled Æthiopes, were the original Indi: they gave name to the river, upon which they settled; and to the country, which they occupied. Hence ' Iarchus of India tells Apollonius ; ότι ΑΙΘΙΟΠΕΖ μεν ωκεν ενταύθα, γενος ΙΝΔΙKON. And almost in every place, where their history occurs, the name of Indi will be found likewise. The river Choaspes, of whose waters only the kings of Persis drank, was esteemed an Indian river.

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? Χωρις μεν Κορος εσι μέγας, χωρίς τε Χοάσπης Ελκων Ινδον ύδωρ.

Philostrati Vit. Apollon. 1. 3. p. 125.

"Diodorus Sicul. 1. 1. p. 17. The chief inhabitants upon the Indus were Cuseans.

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It ran through Chusistan, and was a branch of the Tigris: whence that river, of which the former was a branch, must have been Indian. This is rendered certain from the Cuthite Ethiopians, who came under the title of shepherds into Egypt. They came from Chaldea upon the river Tigris and they are said expressly to have come from the Indus. Αιθιοπές απο Ινδε ποταμε αναςαγ τες προς Αιγύπτῳ ᾤκησαν. About this time, says Eusebius, some Ethiopians, taking leave of their country upon the river Indus, came and settled in Egypt. Hence it is that Bacchus has been represented as the son of the river Indus. Hence also arose the true notion that the Indian Dionusos was the most antient: Διονυσον αρχαιοτατον ΙΝΔΟΝ γεγονεναι. The genuine and most antient person of this title must be referred to Babylonia. This is the country to which Phylarchus alluded, when he said that Bacchus first brought the worship of the two bulls, which were called Apis and Osiris, from India into Egypt. Πρωτος εις Αίγυπτον εξ Ινδών Διονυσος ηγαγε δυω βες, τῷ

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of the Sun. Κυρος, Sol. Hesych. Τον μεν ήλιον Περσαι Κύρον λεγεσι. Κύρος δεσποτης. Hesychius.

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μὲν Απις όνομα, τῷ δε Οσιρις. It was a true history though Plutarch would not allow it. This wor ship was common in Egypt before the Exodus: for it was copied by the Israelites in the wilderness near Mount Sinai. It was of too early date to have been brought from the country near the Ganges: and was introduced from Chaldea, and the Tigris, the original Indus. The Africans, who had the management of elephants in war, were called Indi, as being of Ethiopic original. Polybius says in the passing of the Rhone; " της μεν απολέθαι συνέβη παντας, τες δε ελέφαντας διασωθηναι : it happened that Hannibal lost all the Indi; but the elephants were preserved. The same author says of the consul Cæcilius Metellus in the battle against Asdrubal: θηρια συν αυτοις Ινδοις έλαβε δεκα. The fable of Perseus and Andromeda, whatever it may mean, is an Ethiopic story: and it is said of that hero;

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13 Andromeden Perseus nigris portavit ab Indis.

Virgil, speaking to Augustus of the people of this family, calls them by the same name;

"Polyb. 1. 3. p.200.

12 Ibid. 1. 1. p. 42.

13 Ovid. de Arte Amandi. 1. 1. v. 53.

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