Editorial note — Chapter IX · CONTINUED. (continued 2)

[Footnote 32: Constantinople is called New Rome, and thence In the east the Turks are called Rumos.--Purchas. By the Rumos, or Rúms, are to be understood the people of Egypt; which, having been a part of the Roman empire, is, like Anatolia and other provinces of the Turkish empire, called Rúm by the orientals. Hence likewise the Turks are called Rúms; and not, as Purchas says, because they are in possession of Constantinople, which was called New Rome: For these provinces were called Rúm several ages before the Turks took that city.--ASTLEY, I.254, b.]