An historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India and the progress of trade with that country prior to the discovery of the passage to it by the cape of Good Hope. With an appendix, containing observations on the civil policy, the laws and judicial proceedings, the arts, the sciences, and religious institutions, of the Indians / By William Robertson.

  • Robertson, William, 1721-1793.
Date:
1791
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Credit: An historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India and the progress of trade with that country prior to the discovery of the passage to it by the cape of Good Hope. With an appendix, containing observations on the civil policy, the laws and judicial proceedings, the arts, the sciences, and religious institutions, of the Indians / By William Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ \ which the Public has been long accuftomed. I have kept hiftorical narrative as much feparate as poflible from fcientific and critical difcuflions, by referving the latter for Notes and Illuftrations. I flatter myfelf that I may claim, without prefump- tion, the merit of having examined with diligence what I fubmit to public infpe&ion, and of having referred, with fcrupulous accuracy, to the authors from whom I have derived information, N College of Edinburgh* May loth* 1791*