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The: Colentin Reviend Vol. YZ der recent Wrarpare Joykcishna Public Libeusy Govt of Weet Bouse! THE CALCUTTA REVIEW. No, LXXXU1 Aer, TL—#The Religion Breavateass of Western Indie. Lvctuie detivesed an the Townhall of Bonbag by Fok Woluow, bores. EVERY county of the Kat bos te own peontiar antiquarian wondels, Wistatmg 1s ancient history and the powers, resoces, and ovenpulions of the emly generations of it» peo, le, Tn Exypt, ‘the land of anoint kugs,’ we find temples and ehelhs, md splumses, and exeavafed and stroctural tombs famong the last of which aie the mnoe mownimbs, the pjts- Tuxls}, with thew uo Tonger mysterious imcrogiyphics and with the sell endmtog parting, and drawings (on walls, pillars, tits, sucophagn, papyn, lange, and other moveable aljects), still vecinchng the genoalojtes, enterprizes, and exploits of these Linus, fiom Benes to Ptolemy, avd uniuliing the aoctal and rchspows Ie, aud mannote, aud customs, of the people oser whom they ruled, and of the tibes and nalioes whogwea tithuaus tv them, or held m bondage by them, o1 with whow they wamtanod commercial anisteource. In the Mount Sinai penmbula, we bavy the msoptous ou numerous socks and stones (16 the Witten Valley, and otlor loeatstien), recording the names and simple playeze’ ut Nabathean aud Autbsan sheps herds, wanderers, and pilguims to that hallowed loosity , and the monmnenty wn ercavatius and cuttings of Megharah, Sarubut al-Khadun, nod the nostl of the Mukottah, reveals to us the soming system of the Pharaohs fiom the eighteen! to the eighth centiny before the Chrutian ea, whea the maa of otmning employed by thom put forth Ins hand upon the 10%, overturned tire mountaiva by the roots, snd by his ye gxez,precons wing. On the manu’ of mount Hon #4 ‘the off-constiucted and renewed tomb of the vencrall ' the nother of Moses ; aud, embosuined in its neigh tha pride and glory of Edom, what, so early aa the, Soe = ta “wo eatlod Ty the aD solomon ns bu ile wae pace
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