An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge Which the Ancients Had of India : And the Progress of Trade with that Country Prior to the Discove (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Intercourse with India, from the earliest times, until the conquest of Egypt by the Romans; 2. Intercourse with India, from the establishment of the Roman dominion in Egypt, to the conquest of that kingdom by the Mahomedans; 3. Intercourse with India, from the conquest of Egypt by the Mahomedans, to the discovery of the passage by the Cape of Good Hope, and in establishment of the Portuguese dominion in the East; 4. General observations; Notes and illustrations; Appendix; Notes to the appendix; Index.