107) mentions the admiration of the Sogdoites; and Theophylact Simocatta (l.vii.c.

9) darkly represents the two rival kingdoms in (China) the country of silk.] [Footnote 77: Cosmas, surnamed Indicopleustes, or the Indian navigator, performed his voyage about the year 522, and composed at Alexandria, between 535, and 547, Christian Topography, (Montfaucon, Praefat.

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i.,) in which he refutes the impious opinion, that the earth is a globe; and Photius had read this work, (Cod.xxxvi.p.9, 10,) which displays the prejudices of a monk, with the knowledge of a merchant; the most valuable part has been given in French and in Greek by Melchisedec Thevenot, (Relations Curieuses, part i.,) and the whole is since published in a splendid edition by Pere Montfaucon, (Nova Collectio Patrum, Paris, 1707, 2 vols.

in fol., tom.ii.p.

113--346.) But the editor, a theologian, might blush at not discovering the Nestorian heresy of Cosmas, which has been detected by La Croz (Christianisme des Indes, tom.i.p.