primitive colonists have been traced with a precision that nothing but the singular cohesion of the constituent parts of that ancient form of society called a tribe, could have secured. This is a species of argument that will be duly appreciated by the contemplative mind.

The evidence thus gained, is evidence drawn from no partial sourceit is evidence drawn forth from nations whose impress is of the highest antiquity.

Amid the ruins of empires, or the transient memory of the mightiest conquerors, Time has very generally respected both the form and the name of the grand features of nature. Cities and Polities may have been swept from the earth; Dynasties of unrivalled splendour may have passed away, leaving scanty memorials,possibly noneto record their renown; but it is not so with the history ineffaceably written on the venerable forms of mountains, seas, and rivers. These compose a language so vast and so enduring, that compared with them, the Pyramids, must be considered as dwarfed toys of agglutinated sand which must crumble to atoms before the structure of this language shall be destroyed.

One of the most valuable points, in connection with the results here wrought out, is this geographical basis. It has interpreted correctly, and it will continue to interpret correctly, those singular tales, in early Greek history, which have generally passed current with the literary world, under the name of Myths. They are now proved to be fables, just in proportion as we misunderstand them; truths, in proportion as they were once understood.the north, and so many of their cognate tribes and clans are to be seen hovering over Greece in high latitudes, that it is not improbable that this northerly section of Afghanistan may have sent forth its martial colonists over landby which route, in fact, they could have encountered no opposition sufficient to break down their warlike force, nor to disturb their steady advance towards the west. The reader will now begin to comprehend, with increasing clearness, the meaning of that constant communication between Egypt and Attica and Botiathose frequent missions dispatched from the former countryparticularly the religious propaganda (I know not how to choose a more appropriate term,for such it undeniably was)which unhappily sowed the dragons teeth in Botia. The reasons for sending an apparently Egyptianbut in reality an Attic, Prince to rule over Attica, in the person of Cecrops, will now be evident to the dispassionate inquirer after truth. These, and many more histories, have been vainly charged on Greek writers as the result of mythopic propensities,by men who, while they have shunned the means necessary for the recovery of history, have not scrupled to propound theories, that are absolutely as mythological as the mythologies they have condemned.

After the very astonishing manner in which the Sindian emigration has hitherto maintained its united form, a glance at the map of Greece would tell us where to look for the original settlements of the Corinthiansnor are we disappointedfor, immediately adjoining Magar Talao (the Megaris of Greece), we find the people of the Cor-Indus (Corinthus), that is, that tract of coast stretching from the River Cori to the Indus, embracing the immediate vicinity of either river. The Cori, flowing into the south-eastern

These causes and resultsof vast moment in the anceint worldI shall, without any rationalising process, place in the category of history, when treating of the foundation of Thebes.