"رحلة أوترام وهافلوك في بلاد فارس، بقلم النقيب ج. هـ. هانت، ٧٨ هايلاندرز. يوجد في المقدمة ملخص عن التاريخ الفارسي، تقرير عن الاختلافات المتعددة بين إنجلترا وبلاد فارس واستفسار عن أصل الحرب السابقة. بقلم جورج تاونسيند، مؤلف كتاب "ملخص أوروبا الحديثة لراسل"". [‎٥‎٥] (٣٩٠/٧٦)

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gentle influence of corruption the obedience
which might be sometimes refused to the stern
mandates of authority. The manners of his
subjects, accustomed like himself to blood and
rapine, might excuse in their eyes such partial
acts of tyranny as would excite the horror of
a civilized people, but the power of a despot
has never been acknowledged in the deserts of
Scythia. The immediate jurisdiction of the
khan is confined within the limits of his own
tribe, and the exercise of his royal prerogative
has been moderated by the ancient institution
of a national council.
" The Coroultai, or Diet of the Tartars, was
regularly held in the spring and autumn, in
the midst of a plain, where the princes of the
reigning family and the mursas of the respective
tribes may conveniently assemble on horseback
with their martial and numerous trains, and the
ambitious monarch who reviewed the strength
must consult the inclination of an armed people.
The rudiments of a feudal government may be
discovered in the constitution of the Scythian
or Tartar nations; but the perpetual conflict of
those hostile nations has sometimes terminated