Note (T) — THE HISTORY OF Solyman the Magnificent, and Mustapha his Son.
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Tauris (the old Ecbatana) the second City in the Kingdom of Persia, situated about thirty Miles from the Caspian Sea. In 849 it was deftroy’d by an Earthquake, very frequent in those mountainous Countries. It underwent several Revolutions between the Turks and Persians, but now it remains in the hands of the famous Kouli Kan.