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Excerpt from The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy: Or the Geography, History, and Antiquities of the Sassanian or New Persian Empire Sassanians has been elaborately almost exhaustively treated by Mordtmann and Thomas. Mr. Fergus son has applied his acute and practised powers to the elucidation of the Sassanian architecture. By com bining the results thus obtained with the Old sources of information the classical, especially the Byzantine, writers -it has become possible to compose a history Of the Sassanian Empire which is at once consecutive, and not absolutely meagre. How the author has per formed his task, he must leave it to the public to judge; he will only venture to say that he has spared no labour, but has gone carefully through the entire series of the Byzantine writers who treat of the time, besides availing himself of the various modern works to which reference has been made above. If he has been sometimes obliged to draw conclusions from his authorities other than those drawn by Gibbon, and has deemed it right, in the interests of historic truth, to express occasionally his dissent from that writer's views, he must not be thought blind to the many and great excellencies which render the 'decline and Fall' one of the best, if not the best, of our histories. The mistakes of a writer less eminent and less popular might have been left unnoticed without ill results. Those of an historian generally regarded as an author ity from whom there is no appeal could not be so lightly treated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our e