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.