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They trouble not tliemfelves with read- 

 ing the Hiftories of other Nations or of an- 

 tient times, much lefs with the Study of 

 Chronology^ without which, Hiftory is very 

 lame and imperfed^ which is the caufe oi> 

 thofe ridiculous and childifh Miftakes, which 

 pafs current and uncontradifted among them* 

 For inftance, they make J^?^ one of SolomorP^ 

 Judges and (Ifcander) Alexander the great 

 Captain General of his Army. They num^ 

 ber Thili]^ of Macedon among the Anceftors 

 of our Blejfed Saviour^ and believe that Samp^ 

 fon^ Jon as ^ and St. George were his Contempo- 

 raries. In this they are more excufable then 

 their falfe Prophet Mahomet^ who in his Al- 

 coran has perverted feveral Hiftorical No- 

 tices in the Writings of the Old Teftament, 

 and is guilty of vile and abfurd Pfeudo-chro- 

 nifmes. To remedy this defeft, of which he 

 was very confcious, and the better to under- 

 ftand the States of Chriftendom^ and the par- 

 ticular Kingdoms and Republicks of it, the 

 late Great and Wife V'iz.ir^ Achmet^ made his 

 Interpreter Panagiotti^ a Learned Greek^ at 

 leifure Hours, even at the Siege of candia^ 

 as well as at other times, read feveral anci- 

 ent Hiftories to him, and render them Ex-- 

 tempore into the Turkijh Language, and parti- 

 cularly Blacvs Atlas^ with which he was migh- 

 tily pleafed, and m^de great ufe of, and 

 truly^ gained the Reputation of a folid and 

 judicious States-man, as well as Souldier a- 

 mong the chriftian Minifters, who in the or- 

 dinary courfe of their Negotiations apply'd 

 themfelves to him. 



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