[Footnote 24: All that can be known of the Assassins of
Persia and Syria is poured from the copious, and even
profuse, erudition of M. Falconet, in two Memoires read
before the Academy of Inscriptions, (tom. xvii. p. 127 -
170.) Note: Von Hammer's History of the Assassins has now
thrown Falconet's Dissertation into the shade. - M.]