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CONTENTS.
lxxxi
BOOK II.

Account of the first Ages of the Indian and African Trade—The first Peopling of Abyssinia and Atbara—Some Conjectures concerning the Origin of Language there.

CHAP. I.
Of the Indian Trade in its earliest Ages—Settlement of Ethiopia—Troglodytes—Building of the first Cities, P. 365
CHAP. II.
Saba and the South of Africa peopled—Shepherds, their particular Employment and Circumstances—Abyssinia occupied by seven Stranger Nations—Specimens of their several Languages—Conjectures concerning them, 381
CHAP. III.
Origin of Characters or Letters—Ethiopic the first Language—How and why the Hebrew Letter was formed. 411

CHAP.