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XXIV. An Account of the Caves of Cannara, Ambola, and Elephanta, in the East Indies ; in a Letter from Hector Macneil, Esq. then at Bombay, to a Friend in England, dated 1783. Communicated by the Rev. Mr. Gregory, F.A.S.

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The caves of Salset and Elephanta have of late attracted the notice of the virtuosi at this place, and are now the general topic of conversation.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1787

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page 252 note [a] A kind of small Bamboo.

page 288 note [a] See Joseph. Antiq. Jud. lib. I. cap. 7. p. 11. l. 16. ab ima pag. ed. Gr. Basil. informs us, that the Ethiopians were the descendants of Cush, and that all the people in Asia even in his time called that people Cushim. The language of the Ethiopians was a kindred dialect of the Hebrew, Chaldean, Arabian, Phœnician. See Walton's Prolegom. Gale's Court of the Gentiles, vol. I. lib. 1. cap. 11. p. 90. par. 12. Bochart Can. lib. 1. cap. 15. Hottengeri Smegma ling. Orien. lib. 1. cap. 5. p. 81. Accordingly a vast number of names of countries, nations, cities, islands, rivers, mountains, &c. over all India every where occur in ancient writers, which to a person versed in these languages will at once appear to belong to one or other of them. To the learned gentleman already mentioned, I am also indebted for this note.

page 288 note [b] At Gualeor there are figures in also relievo cut out of rock, many of which I am informed are above seventy feet in height. Gualeor lies in 69. E. long. 25. 45. N. lat.

page 289 note [c] See Diodorus Siculus ed. Steph. lib. 11. p. 15. et seqq. Herodot. lib. 3. cap. 98—108. Ctesiæ excerpta annexed to Herodotus, p. 656. et seqq. Strabo, lib. 15. p. 689. ed. Casaub. Philostr. vit. Apol. Tyan. ubi supra. Arriani hist. Indica passim. Quint. Curtius Megasthenes, &c.

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