108.)] [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.