Excerpt from A General History of the World, From the Creation to the Present Time, Vol. 2: Including All the Empires, Kingdoms, and States, Their Revolutions, Forms of Government, Laws, Religions, Customs and Manners, The Progress of Their Learning, Arts, Sciences, Commerce and Trade, Together With Their ChronologyThofe who contend for the great antiquity and extenfive domi nion of the fl jrians, found their opinion upon the authority of Ctejias, w om Ari otle, who was almofi his cotemporary, and many others of e antients, declare to he a fabulous writer unworth of credit. Indeed whoever perufes his Indica and Afirian lfifiory, will not fcruple to conclude that -he has been a man of little fincerity, and that his writings are a mere to mance, calculated to afionifh and amaze, and to ftraiu credu lit beyond all oilible bounds.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.