[Footnote 29: Mosheim, Institut. Hist. Eccles. p. 632. See,
in Chardin's Travels, (tom. i. p. 171 - 174,) the manners
and religion of this handsome but worthless nation. See the
pedigree of their princes from Adam to the present century,
in the tables of M. De Guignes, (tom. i. p. 433 - 438.)]