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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.