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Ancient Accounts of India and China by Two Mohammedan Travellers Who Went to Those Parts in the 9th Century; Translated from the Arabic by the Late Learned Eusebius Renaudot

1733

Its Age may be fufficently afcertained by the Charaeter it is in; but we have a plain Proof that it was writen in the Year of the Hejra DLXIX or the Year of Chriff MCLXXIII : For at the End there are fome Obfervations of the fame Hand upon the Extent and Cicumference of the Walls and Towers of Damafcas and other Cities in fubjeCtion to Soltan Nuroddin fo famous in the Wars Beyond-fe [...] two Dates they give the one of the Year CCXXXVII of the Hejra which is that of our firft Traveller and the other of the Year of the fame CCLIV when a great Revolution hapned in China are true and juit : And thefe two Dates correfpond with the Years of Cbrifr DcccLr and DCCCLXV IL Every body knows that Marco. [...] THEl'he Reader is delved to take Notice That the Capitals in the Margin of the Two Accounts are added in this Edition and refer to the fame in the Margin of the Notes which are in exalt Alphabetical Order And that [DE9 in the Margin of Page 84 of the Accounts 6 Lines from the bottom is wanting. [...] This Amber is produced at the Bottom of the Sea as Plants are upon Earth ; and when the Sea is troubled the Violence of the Wave tears it up from the Bottom and wallies it to the Shore in form of a Mushroom or a Truffle. [...] in the World ; they allow the King of the Arabs to be the firft and to be witout difpute the moft Powerful of Kings the moft wealthy and the moft excellent every way ; becaufe he is the Prince and Head of a great Religion and becaufe no other furpaffes him in Greatnefslor Power.
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Pages
409
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146290
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Frontmatter
i-xxxviii unknown view
Ancient Account of India and China
1-38 unknown view
The Second Account: or the Discourse of Abu Zeid Al Hafan of Siraf
39-99 unknown view
Remarks or Notes Upon the Chief Passages of the Two Foreign Accounts
1-75 unknown view
An Inquiry into the Origin of the Christian Religion in China
76-123 unknown view
An Inquiry into the Time When the Mohammedans First Entered into China
124-182 unknown view
An Inquiry Concerning the Jews Discovered in China
183-199 unknown view
A Dissertation on the Chinese Learning
200-260 unknown view
The Index
i-xii unknown view

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