Sketches of Persia

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The uninformed natives of these countries, whose condition is much to be deplored, are not aware that the great Samuel Johnson has said, that Whatever raises the past, the distant, and the future, above the present, exaltsx us in the dignity 'of human beings which is an unanswerably good reason for the. Preference given to mummies over every living object, however fascinating.