him the Knowledge of the Turkijh rnd Arahick Lan- 
guages ; and his fécond, of the ^erfmn : Thefe three 
Languages, which he was fo much Mafter of, and 
which are indifpenfably neceflary for the under- 
ftanding of Oriental Books, together with his skill 
in Hiftory, Mathematicks, Aftronomy, BQtanicks, 
and other Natural Sciences, wherein he excelled, 
render'd him lb accomplifh'd in all Oriental Learn- 
ing, as you muft needs have found by his private 
Mémoires, that there are but few in the Weftern 
Parts who come near him in that, and none but 
may reap Profit from his Inflrud:ions. 
Nor do I in the leaf! doubt, but that he who hath 
written the Book of the Coronation ofSolyman, is of the 
fame opinion ; and for inflance, I cannot think 
hell maintain that the word Mehter, which he attri- 
butes to the Fligh Chamberlain of the King of Per- 
fia, and makes a Superlative by the fignification he 
gives it, is Arabicky when he finds that our Author 
affirms it to be a Ferjïan word, and Comparative, 
feeing its Superlative is Mehterin, which lignifies the 
Greateft. 
I am very confident alfo, he will be ready to con- 
fefs, that Toboat is an Arabick, and not a Perlian 
word, and that hell acknowledge, if he underftand 
Arabick or Perfian, that that word which fignifies 
Coffins, hath not the Character of Perfian Plurals, 
which commonly end in Ha , or in An ; jbut of 
Arabick. 
As to the word Divan beghi, which he fays is cor- 
rupted from Divanum Begh, no fence can be made 
of that Propofition, Divanum 5^»^^ having never been 
ufed, neither in Turkilh nor in Perfiàn, and is in- 
deed Non-fenfe. On the contrary, Dizian beghi, 
which fignifies (as our Author fays) Lord of the Divan, 
is- very goodTurkilh, and exa^ly .agreeable to^he 
Syntax of that Language. 
Nor have you any greater caufe of fear, for the 
two words of Tiirban and Munedgim, you take notice 
of to me, as made ufe of by our Author. The Au- 
thor of the Coronation of Solyman may fay what he 
will y but he would have done vei'y ill to have writ- 
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