ΑΝ

HISTORICAL DISQUISITION

CONCERNING

ANCIENT INDIA.

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 Paffage to it by the

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

With

an

APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

Obfervations on the Civil Policy-the Laws and Judicial Proceedings-
the Arts-the Sciences-and Religious Inftitutions,

of the INDIANS.

By WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D. D. F. R. S. Ed.

PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY, AND HISTORIOGRAPHER

TO HIS MAJESTY FOR SCOTLAND.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR A. STRAHAN, AND T. CADELL IN THE STRAND;

AND E. BALFOUR AT EDINBURGH.