[Footnote 13: Dow, Hist. of Hindostan, vol. i. p. 89, 95 -
98. I have copied this passage as a specimen of the Persian
manner; but I suspect that, by some odd fatality, the style
of Ferishta has been improved by that of Ossian. Note:
Gibbon's conjecture was well founded. Compare the more
sober and genuine version of Col. Briggs, vol. i. p. 110. -
M.]