510 : À RAZEM-BEG, 
110 year of the Hijret. The first event must be referred 10 the last years of Velid's reign, (see 
this Part, rem, 2.) and the second, to the fifth year of the reign of Æishdm (see rem. 2. Part 
the fourth). To:this last refer the words of Mir-khond b, RE ME Clans ülse sl ee plss 
ue 4f ol Us) ou en ob le JL pa on met 18 "TE 1 L?S d 
à Sp Le ste De (lsS) LES Cu pl 9 did Ja fa POS «And Hisham be- 
stowed Ge vicegerency over Aderbijän, Shirvan and Shemakhi on hisibrather Muslimeh, who 
with the. power of superior authority arrived in those parts, passed the /ron-passage called by 
its inhabitants commonly. Demir-gkapi (iron gates) and made great wars with the people of 
Gki-han (which must be Gkiptchagk, or rather the Khazars) ». EC. 
In fact, it seems that from the time of Velid, down to the reïgn of his A Hisham, 
there have been several expeditions which are referred to, partly by our author, Teberi, 
Mirkhond and Tchelebi, and partly by some of them only. The reader will have occasion 
to distinguish them in the course of our remarks added to this and the following parts of our 
author's work. 
Remark 2, ‘page 504. 
In the text is written 0 Ja» US? 52 call ls, i. e. in the year sixty four of the Hijret. 
The same error we find in the MSS. of Berlin, of St. Petersburg and probably in that of Paris, 
since Klaproth, after noticing and correcling the errors of the MS. of Berlin, does not say 
anything about the epoch mentioned in the MS. Of Paris, which he consulted through the whole 
of his translation. The generality of this error: in all:the said versions leads us to attribute 
it to the author of the Derbend -nâmeh himself, who might fall into it very easily by reading 
indifferently the Arabic Numeral cpu» #5] for ces ml: Indeed the middle :letters.2, u 
both in ancient and modern writings, when the necessary dots are omitted, arc frequently mis- 
taken the one for the other, unless the copyist take upon himself the trouble of making out 
the true sionification of the word by due investigation. The learnèd Klaproth then, has justly 
corrected this mistake; for Velid, the son of Abdul-melik, began his reïgn in the year 86 of 
the Hijret, and died im the year 96, after a reign of 9:years 7 months and 29, days (see Hem- 
zeh the Ispahanian, section V. of ch: X.); and according to Tchelebi, as we had occasion to 
notice in the-preceding remark, in the:95 year of the Hijret Muslimeh subdued Derbend, con- 
sequently the expedition commenced in the year 94. 5 
Remark 3. page 504. 
This name im our MS. is written Es where pl Abümuslim, in that of Belin Malone 
but I have followed the true reading, which is found in Teberi, Tchelebi and in the ver- 
sion of St. Petersburg-'It is the name of one of the four brothers of Velid, who, through his 
repeated conquests distinguishéd the reïgns 6f all his brothers with unfading glory. In our ver- 
sion his name is confounded with thal of the ‘celebrated phisylc of Khorasan (see Part VI. 
