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FROM THE

Creation of the World

TO THE

BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

BY

THE LATE HON. ALEXANDER FRASER TYTLER,

LORD WOODHOUSELEE,

&XNATOR OF THE COLLEOR OF JUSTICE, AND LORD COMMISSIONER OP JUSTICIARY IN SCOTLAND; AND YORMERLY PROFESSOR OF CIVIL HISTOKY, AND GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, IN THE UNIVERSITY

OP EDINBURGH.

SIX VOLUMES.

VOLUME THE SIXTH.

THE THIRD EDITION.

LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET;

AND

SOLD BY THOMAS TEGG, 73 CHEAPSIDE.

MDCCCXXXIX.

1422 v.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

LONDON: BALNE BROTHERS, PRINTERS, GRACECHURCH STREET.

CONTENTS.

BOOK THE SIXTH.

CHAPTER XXIV.

CHINA AND JAPAN:-Tartar Revolutions-Posterity of

Gengis Khan finally maintain Possession of the Throne

-Pretensions to Antiquity considered.—Page 1.

CHAPTER XXV.

M. Bailly's Theory of the Origin of the Sciences among the

Nations of Asia.- Page 27.

CHAPTER XXVI.

Reign Of Philip II. of SPAIN-REVOLUTION OF THE

NETHERLANDS, AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REPUB-

LIC OF HOLLAND:- William of Nassau declared Stadt-

holder of the United Provinces-Philip acquires the

Sovereignty of Portugal-Schemes against England-

Defeat of the Armada-Death and Character of Philip II.

Page 44.

CHAPTER XXVII.

STATE OF FRANCE IN THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH CEN-

TURY :— Religious Contentions—Conspiracy of Amboise

-Death of Francis II.-Charles IX.-Massacre of St.