‘The Oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century’ [‎28] (43/388)

xxviii PJIEFACE.
Rabbi lehudah the Levite, in honour of the Jewish vnoncivch
of that country*.
From a multiplicity of Eastern traditions concerning the
land of Yajouge and Majouge ("or Gog and Magog J, I col
lected whatever could illustrate that subject, over which a veil
of obscurity still hangs, notwithstanding the endeavours of
Bochart\ and UHerbelotX to remove it. It is unnecessary
to mention any other European writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. , however ingenious,
since, if not skilled in the languages of Asia, or not having
better sources of information than those eminent Orientalists
above named, all that he can offer is mere conjecture.
Ebn Haukal'5 account of afforded subject for many
observations, and my remarks on the Pyramids of Egypt oc
cupied several pages. The vestiges of Jewish and Christian
establishments pointed out by our Author in various parts of
the following Work, appeared worthy of being examined with
* This work was published by the learned Buxtorf, with a Latin translation, at Basil,
1660, quarto; and in his Bibliotheca Rabbinica, p. 298 [Basil, duod. 1613), he
celebrates it as Liber multiplicis doctrinae ac multse laudis.
t Geograph. Sacr. Lib. III. cap. xiii.
J Bibliot. Orient, article lagiouge.