[Footnote 36: The Russians have found characters, rude
hieroglyphics, on the Irtish and Yenisei, on medals, tombs,
idols, rocks, obelisks, &c., (Strahlenberg, Hist. of
Siberia, p. 324, 346, 406, 429.) Dr. Hyde (de Religione
Veterum Persarum, p. 521, &c.) has given two alphabets of
Thibet and of the Eygours. I have long harbored a suspicion,
that all the Scythian, and some, perhaps much, of the Indian
science, was derived from the Greeks of Bactriana.
Note: Modern discoveries give no confirmation to this
suspicion. The character of Indian science, as well as of
their literature and mythology, indicates an original
source. Grecian art may have occasionally found its way
into India. One or two of the sculptures in Col. Tod's
account of the Jain temples, if correct, show a finer
outline, and purer sense of beauty, than appears native to
India, where the monstrous always predominated over simple
nature. - M.]