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Shah put out his eldeft fon's eyes, from fufpi- 

 cion, and appointed his other fon his fucceflbr. 

 But after Nadir Shah was murdered on a hunt- 

 ing match, all his family were killed by his 

 nephew called Adel Shah y only excepting Sha 

 Rock Shah r , who was Nadir Shah's grand- 

 fon, and the fon of the daughter of Shah 

 Houjfain. This Adel Shah is faid to have been 

 very mild towards his fubjects, efpecially to- 

 wards thofe who lived about Jfpahan ; for he 

 not only freed them from paying any thing to 

 the king for five years, but alfo gave them 

 money to enable them to cultivate the foil. 

 When he was vifited by the law of retaliation, 

 Sha Rock Shah took poffeffion of Kharazan, 

 and had, as I was told, the greater! part of the 

 riches of Nadir Shah in his hands: Solyman 

 Shah t who was formerly Sha Rock's fervant, 

 took pofleflion of Jfpahan, and Cely Mehemet 

 Shah took Tauris ; the undertaking of prince 

 Heraclius we firft learnt at Canton, where the 

 Armenians told it with great expreffions of 



joy- 



We weighed anchor the i ft of March, 

 175 1, after a flay of five months and a half j 



* Mr. Toreen feems to be miftaken here, iince there is 

 a repetition of the word Sbab ia Sba Rock Sba. F. 



during 



