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Remark 18. page 519. 
In Klaproth's translation it is stated that he entered the fortress, which the translator, in a 
note to this place, thinks to be that of Zndji; but this is an error, because we are told, a little before, 
that Pashenk was in the vicinity-of Gkayeh-kend, therefore no other place but this latter could 
be meant here by the fortress. In the MS. of St. Petersburg we find a slight and apparent dif- 
ference: it is said there that: ab) ) O4 JE 9) «52292 Do dal Ur él QEL 
dial, 5 ab :Le [ve sl) aLLSS Die dures ss 335 (+ ouaill) él us av ve 55 
IE els 5 «The son of the Khaghan entered into the fortress of Mesin and remained 
there; but when Abou-Obeïdeh (ï. e. Djerrah) with the rest of his army (ï. e. the four thou- 
sand men, sent to assault Gkaitagh and Tabasaran, being supposed not to have yet returned) 
reached the river Darvagh, Päshenk was afraid, (here a word follows which [ cannot make out) h 
left Hesim and with: his army encountered Dijerräh ac. ». —_ In Teberi we find also that Djer- 
räh passed from Nehrevan to Hesin ac. see this Part, Rem. 1. and Appendix to this work for 
axe) el jé, — If we believe the identity of Æesin with Gkayeh-kend (see Rem. 4 to 
this Part,) then the obscurity will be totally removed. 
Remark 19. page 519. 
In the MS. of St. Petersburg we read the following, which illustrates the translation of this 
place in Klaproth: it is the continuation of the quotation laid before the reader in the pre- 
ceding remark :: LS > a Si He fs (r) al) 5 y) ou oJmeussil J 5 uus Al 
af us ele Rad) 58 (GE) 5 RG st (a élit) aG,h [Jet Li s 
Lo (usb) est ve (Gulol) oulol (Éilse) Uyilse ef obil vus ve 5e 
po > ai) Us=l © Sl üls Uk b aus 85 «sJehslis das" ex [æ] 
à HET CR éle OR) o>bes » o Jus pl « The drums were beaten on both sides, [Obeideh] 
Djerräh. dismounted from his horse, and having taken ..... (a word I cannot make out) ascen- 
ded it. He addressed his army saying: O Syrians! know ye, that if you will betake yourselves 
to flight, you shall not return in safety to your country’. Fight then as heroes of the field! And 
if you die, you will die the death of martyrs. This fading world has never been constant to 
any one, and nobody in it is immortal, do you therefore strive for the world to come! — 
While Abou-Obeïdeh (ï.e Djerräh) was thus admonishing, there came the chief of the right 
s &# We have already noticed that this surname is erroneously applied here to ele: see this part IV. Rem, 2. 
ho: ft may be Jill) «of blushingn; i. e. he was afraid lest he should blush for his conduct in shut- 
ting up himself in the fortress and not encountering the enemy in the feld. 
_ “In the original it is an imprecatory expression: O may ye not return then in safety! &c. 
 Mem. des sav. étrang. T° V1. 68 
