THE

 

HISTORY

 

OF

 

THE LIFE OF

 

NADER SHAH,

 

KING OF PERSIA.

 

Extracted from an Eastern Manuscript, which was translated

into French by Order of

 

HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF DENMARK.

 

With an INTRODUCTION, containing,

 

I. A DESCRIPTION of ASIA, according to

the Oriental Geographers.

 

II. A Short HISTORY of PERSIA from the

earliest Times to the present Century:

 

And an APPENDIX, consisting of

 

An ESSAY on ASIATICK POETRY, and the

HISTORY of the PERSIAN LANGUAGE.

 

To which are added,

 

PIECES relative to the FRENCH TRANSLATION.

 

By WILLIAM JONES, Esq.

 

Fellow of UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, and of the

 

ROYAL SOCIETIES at LONDON and COPENHAGEN.

 

LONDON:

 

PRINTED BY J. RICHARDSON,

 

FOR T. CADELL IN THE STRAND.

 

MDCCLXXIII.