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does not pretend to be a critical dictionary, winch Vullers does. Johnson 

 gives Arabic words, in which he is exceedingly exact, as he had good 

 sources ; Vullers has only a few. The Persian words of both Dic- 

 tionaries contain a great number of words and meanings that never 

 existed, and many wrong spellings, because both used the B. and the 

 Haft qulzum — works which compilers ought not to use. But the 

 number of mistakes is greater in Vullers, because he has used other 

 bad sources, as shall be shewn hereafter. On the other side Johnson 

 has given many meanings derived from the study of Persian writers, 

 in which point Vullers is sadly deficient. Again, for the Isti'mal-i- 

 Mutaakhkharin, Vullers is better, as he has used, from the middle of 

 the letter g-, the Bahar i 'Ajam. 



For those who use Vullers' Lexicon, the following remarks may be 

 of use : — 



The words marked in Vullers 

 C. (Castelli). 

 C. ex pers. vers. V. Test, (words taken by Castelli 



from some version of the Old Testament). 

 G. ex G. I do not know what this means. 

 F. (Earhang-i-Shu'uri).* 



M. ex F. (words which Meninski took from the 

 Farhang-i-Shu'uri). 

 and B. in app. (the appendix by Captain Roebuck) are 

 nearly all doubtful. 



As examples of words marked G, G. ex pers. vers. V. 

 Test., and G. ex G., I shall mention— 8^1, a blunder for JS^AjI ; 

 _iflj| ; jiy and c£3b! ; &)j\, a blunder for t^Jjjl ; ejlj)!, a blunder for 

 uljf ; ^jb ; AJb^b, a blunder for *JL»j,Lj ; ^j^jb ; ^X^jjb : 8>J)Lj, a 

 mistake for a compound ending in 8/j ; e^-^jj^ ; ^^ ; i^IHj ; --'lb 

 a blunder for J>^ (which itself is doubtful) ; i_£xa>iyj ; &JL±-l ; cjojjI^ . 



<_r^ j J^y. J { ^ J tfi > &*iy. ; ^-iPt)^ 5 ^*H> a blunder for i£b*i ; j\jki • or, 

 to take another letter of the alphabet, — ii):>J>*^> j ^a^ ; &££ ; &Ci ; 



ratione cum primariis fontibus ipsis [B. and HK. ?] facta edoctus sum, perniultas 

 in iis significationes esse allatas, quae in falsa et perversa interpretations 

 exempli primarii nituntur indeque utpote falsas prorsus esse delendas." Be te 

 fabula narratur. 



* I mean those words marked with the letter F., which Vullers did not find 

 in B., Bh. 3 HK., SHL. 



