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connected with Persian literature, and shed much 

 additional light on this department of eastern 

 learning. 



To Mr. Francis Gladwin, also of Great Britain, 

 one of the most unwearied labourers ia oriental 

 literature which the eighteenth century produced, 

 the public is much indebted for the aid which he 

 rendered to students of the Persian language. Be- 

 side several important translations, which alone 

 entitle him to distinction, he published a gram- 

 mar, entitled the Persian Monshee ; and also a 

 Compendious Vocabulary ^ English and Persian, 

 These were presented to the public about the year 

 1780, and have received great and just praise. 



Beside the above-mentioned gentlemen, who 

 were eminently distinguished as promoters of Per- 

 sian literature, some others deserve to be respect- 

 fclly noticed, as having contributed to the same 

 object. Among these Mr. Richardson, by his 

 Specimens of Persian Poetry\, and other publica- 

 tions ; major Davy, by his Institutes of Timour ; 

 major Ouseley, by his Oriental Collections ; and 

 M. Mirkliond, by liis Historia Priorum Regum 

 Persarum, have rendered important aid to the 

 students of oriental learning. Persian literature 

 has also been enriched, during the last age, with a 

 number of important translations into the different 

 languages of Europe. To these may be added the 

 valuable information given respecting the arts, 

 sciences, and literature, of Persia, by Tavcrnier, 

 Franklin, Niebuhr, and various other intelligent 

 travellers in that country. 



