Note 131 — The very remote Antiquity attributed to certain Nations is not supported by History.
Reading edition
See Sir William Jones on the chronology of the Hindoos, Calcutta Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 111. See also Wilfort on the same subject, Ibid. vol. v. p. 241. and the lists which he gives in his essay cited above, vol. ix. p. 116.