Philosophical transactions, Vol. L. Part I. For the year 1757. / Giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours, of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world.

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[76] Philosoph. Transact. Vol. xlix. p. 593-607.

[77] Philosoph. Transact. Vol. xlviii. p. 693.

[78] Philosoph. Transact. Vol. xlviii. p. 693, 740.

[79] Philosoph. Transact. ubi sup.

[80] Philosoph. Transact. ibid.

[81] Philosoph. Transact. ubi sup. p. 693, 740.

[82] Chard. Voyages en Perse, &c. Tom. iii. p. 119. A Amsterdam 1711. Philosoph. Transact. Vol. xlix. p. *597, *598.

[83] That the plural termination of PADESHAH, or SHAH, which, according to Khojah Asdhalo'ddîn, denoted originally the same thing, was AN, or perhaps ANE, in the days of Ammianus Marcellinus, there is good reason to believe; the word SAANSAA, KING OF KINGS, having been then used by the Persians, and handed down to us by that author. The term ΣΑΑ, SAA, equivalent to the Persic SHAH, KING, likewise occurs in Agathias, a writer of the sixth century. Should my explication of the Parthian legend of the coin before me meet with the approbation of the learned, it will perhaps be granted me, that the plural of PADESHAH, or PADESHA, amongst the Parthians was PADESHAN, if not PADESHANE, in the second century after Christ. Hyd. Hist. Rel. Vet. Pers. p. 416. Khojah Asdhalo'ddîn, D'Herbel. Biblioth. Orient. p. 767. Hadr. Reland. Dissert. viii. de Vet. Ling. Pers. p. 221, 222. Ammian. Marcellin. Lib. xix. cap. 2. Agath. Lib. iv. p. 135, 136. Parisiis, 1660. Ezech. Spanhem. De Præstant. et Us. Numism. Antiquor. Tom. i. p. 463-466. Lond. 1706.

[84] Hyd. Hist. Rel. Vet. Pers. p. 79. Oxon. 1700.

[85] D'Herbel. Biblioth. Orient. p. 699, 767. Hyd. ubi sup. Hadr. Reland. Dissert. viii. de Vet. Ling. Pers. p. 147. Trajecti ad Rhenum, 1707.