The history of the life of Nader Shah, King of Persia. Extracted from an Eastern manuscript, which was translated into French by order of His Majesty the King of Denmark ... / With an introduction ... and an appendix ... By William Jones, esq.

  • Mahdī Khān Astarābādī, active 1733-1759.
Date:
1773
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Credit: The history of the life of Nader Shah, King of Persia. Extracted from an Eastern manuscript, which was translated into French by order of His Majesty the King of Denmark ... / With an introduction ... and an appendix ... By William Jones, esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A DESCRIPTION of ASIA. xxvii muft know, that the Afiaticks have a cuftom of perfuming their letters, which they tie up in little bags of fattin or damalk. The city of CASHGAR alfo, with its territory, belongs, according to fome writers, to Khata ; as well as KHAN BALER, which the Eaftern Geographers place actually in the Chinefe Empire; this is not the Cambalu of our travellers, which is properly called Cabalig, and Hands forty-four degrees from the Line, and an hundred and three from the Canaries. CARACUM is likewife_ a city of Khata, and is fituated in a large plain covered with black fand, from which it derives its name. All this exteniive Empire was conquered in the thirteenth century by Tamugin or Genghiz, who penetrated even into China, which his fuccelTor Oddi' almoft wholly fubdued, and took the city of Nam Km, or Nang King, where the Chinefe prince Altun burned hiinfclf anti all his family, that he might not fall into the hands of the Moguls.