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,, XIX • 1 sbrk t<nn'' Iripiul Ku'^tiin. at 1 'pahaii 72 ,, XX . r.sbck to hi*, \Mie /<u'hi, at the Scrai;lumit Isp.ihan , . . -71 ,, XXI : I'slx'k to th' I tin t white haimich . 70 ,, XXll . laron to thi‘ Inst hainuch . . 77 ,, XXI II Issbek t(^ 1)1 > tnend Ibben, at Sinvi'iia 7S ,, XXIV : Ivu a to Ibbim. at Sinviiia . . yq ,, XXV ; I'sbfk to Iblnm, .it SiiiMiia . . 83 ,, XXVI . bsln'k to Ko\ana, at the Sorai^lio at ,, XXVI 1 . Iksbck to XtAsir, at Ispahan . . 88 iii CONTENTS Letter XXVTTI : Rica to * * ♦ . . . .89 ,, XXIX : Rica to Ibbcn, at Smyrna . . 92 ,, XXX : Rica to the Same, at Smyrna . . 94 ,, XX XI : Rhedi to Usbck, at Paris . . 96 „ XXXIII : Usbek to Rhedi, at Venice . . 98 „ XXXIV : Usbek to Ibben, at Smyrna . . 99 „ XXXV : Usbek to Gemchid, his Cousin, Dervish of the glorious INIonastery of Tauris ..... loi ,, XXXVI : Usbek to Rhedi, at Venice . .103 ,, XXXVIT : Usbek to Ibbcn, at Smyrna . . 105 ,, XXXVIII: Rica to Ibbcn, at Smyrna o. . 107 ,, XXXIX : Hagi Ibbi to the Jew Bon Joshua, Mohammedan Proselyte, at Smyrna . 109 ,, XL: Usbek to Ibben, at Smyrna . . in ,, XLI : The chief black Eunuch to Usbek . 112 ,, XLII : PlAran to Usbek, his Sovereign Lord 113 II Like Montaigne, Montesquieu was a Gascon. His father, Jacques de Secondat, married Marie-Frangoise de Penel, the descendant of an English family which had remained in France after the English rule had ceased there. Slie was an only child, and her husband received with her the title and barony of La BrMe, an estate in Gascon}^, with a fantastic old Gothic donjon built in tlie thirteenth century. Montesquieu was the second of six children.…