PREFACE. 
XI 
must be so described; no surprise need be excited at a word of 
gratitude; and patience at least, may be granted to the tribute 
which is paid to the contemporary worth that makes a brother¬ 
hood of every nation. 
To clear away a little the maze of eastern and classic names 
which generally presents itself whenever an ancient king of Persia 
occurs in these pages, a list of the sovereigns of the empire, 
Medes and Persians, is here subjoined. The table of contents 
of the volume is added, something between the copiousness of 
an index, and the brevity of a mere head of chapters. 
P. S. The author of these Travels being abroad, the transcri¬ 
ber takes this opportunity of apologizing to the public for some 
errors in the orthography of proper names, which have crept into 
the work from the difficulty of decyphering the hand, or rather 
character, of the MS. transcribed. 
