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A

HISTORY OF PERSIA


FROM

THE BEGINNING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO

THE YEAR 1858,


WITH A


REVIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS THAT LED TO

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF


THE KAJAR DYNASTY.


BY

ROBERT GRANT WATSON,

FORMERLY ATTACHED TO HER MAJESTY'S LEGATION AT THE COURT OF PERSIA.


Ἔστι μὲν ἡμῖν ἡ ἀρχὴ ἡ πατρῴα πρὸς μὲν μεσημβρίαν, μέχρις οὗ διὰ καῦμα οὐ δύνανται οἰκεῖν ἄνθρωποι, πρὸς δὲ ἄρκτον, μέχρις οὗ διὰ χειμῶνα·

Xenophon's Anabasis, I. 7.


LONDON:

SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL.

1866.