TO THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY
OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

Gentlemen,

Having lately heard that it is your intention to encourage translations of oriental manuscripts, I presume to lay before you the present work. I made the translation several years ago, but was deterred from publishing it, from a conviction that the sale of oriental works seldom repays the expences attached to them. But gentlemen, under your auspices, I now venture to publish this singular production, and hope it will not be unacceptable to your honorable society. If my expectation be realized, I shall continue to translate other classical authors, with a degree of confidence in your support; and shall at all times, be happy in contributing my small mite to the general fount of oriental literature.

I am, Gentlemen,

your most obedient

Humble Servant,

Wm PRICE.

Worcester, February, 1828,