Excerpt from Origines, or Remarks on the Origin of Several Empires, States, and Cities, Vol. 1
As I found it impossible to avoid in. Troducing many Oriental words into the course of my discussions and as Euro peans are far from being agreed about the orthography of such words, when written in Roman letters, I have gone rally added the forms which they bear in the characters of the different languages to which they belong.
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