"الجغرافيا الشرقية لابن حوقل، رحّالة عربي من القرن العاشر" [‎٢‎٨‎١] (٣٨٨/٣٣٤)

krkaneli to i.
Wi
tW0 S;i,
aj^
farsan g; fro® J,
on the road of
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^ II ■' Ew.
Chnje; fen
from Kherselikttf
Selwk
' * * jDeheknjj,
nkietff, one te
farsang.
ed In the Eton MS,
10 doubtfolly written in i
^luBrnkt.
n MS. is 10 "f"'
^thoseoftkefe*
( 281 )
Thus terminates the Oriental Geography of E bn H aukal,
according to the Manuscript preserved in the College Library
at Eton—fMy copy wants the last leaf.J However abrupt
it may seem, I am induced to believe that this is the proper
conclusion of the JVork; for a considerable part of the last
page in the Eton Manuscript is left blank—a circumstance
which could not have happened, had it been intended that
any more should follow, as the Eastern Penmen are so scru
pulously exact infilling every page with an equal number of
lines, that they frequently begin a new Section or Chapter at
the very bottom of a page. The Author, besides, appears to
have accomplished his design, intimated in the second and
third pages of this Volume,
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