vain pretence, that
Mount Caucasus is the impregnable barrier of the Romans. I know the
course of the Niester, the Danube, and the Hebrus; the most warlike
nations have yielded to the arms of the Turks; and from the rising to
the setting sun, the earth is my inheritance." Notwithstanding this
menace, a sense of mutual advantage soon renewed the alliance of
the Turks and Romans: but the pride of the great khan survived his
resentment; and when he announced an important conquest to his friend
the emperor Maurice, he styled himself the master of the seven races,
and the lord of the seven climates of the world. [37]

[Footnote 35: Theophanes, (Chron. p. 204,) and the Hist. Miscella, (l.
xvi. p. 110,) as understood by De Guignes, (tom. i. part ii. p. 354,)
appear to speak of a Turkish embassy to Justinian himself; but that of
Maniach, in the fourth year of his successor Justin, is positively the
first that reached Constantinople, (Menander p. 108.)]

[Footnote 36: The Russians have found characters, rude hieroglyphics, on
the Irtish and Yenisei, on medals, tombs, idols, rocks, obelisks, &c.,
(Strahlenberg, Hist. of Siberia, p. 324, 346, 406, 429.) Dr. Hyde (de
Religione Veterum Persarum, p. 521, &c.) has given two alphabets of
Thibet and of the Eygours. I have long harbored a suspicion, that all
the Scythian, and some, perhaps much, of the Indian science, was
derived from the Greeks of Bactriana. * Note: Modern discoveries give no
confirmation to this suspicion. The character of Indian science, as
well as of their literature and mythology, indicates an original source.
Grecian art may have occasionally found its way into India. One or two
of the sculptures in Col. Tod's account of the Jain temples, if correct,
show a finer outline, and purer sense of beauty, than appears native to
India, where the monstrous always predominated over simple nature.--M.]

[Footnote 3611: This rite is so curious, that I have subjoined the
description of it:-- When these (the exorcisers, the Shamans) approached
Zemarchus, they took all our baggage and placed it in the centre. Then,
kindling a fire with branches of frankincense, lowly murmuring certain
barbarous words in the Scythian language, beating on a kind of bell
(a gong) and a drum, they passed over the baggage the leaves of the
frankincense, crackling with the fire, and at the same time themselves
becoming frantic, and violently leaping about, seemed to exorcise the
evil spirits. Having