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2 ftiii— Hill .«» muJ) and mnnntohKup, M jgrtae.eomiriet, «i tU
3 MrtlmftteafHiBdkio.GocMlk HMf aielahilritodby Taujika,«ill
4 lie Mnr-wMDC^ lo.Kio0ndofM*
5 JtaSkn* i» ft iMHfMMr and bitty, ooontiy ki'.die nofdMit of Balkli«
6 and kiMtiguaua to 3fcwhikliaha«n. It la^ bovmiw ftrtOe and wiatt
7 The ruling tribe of Bulkh, and indeed tbo principal part of the
8 popolatKMit belong to the Uzbek nation. I ihaU, thfinfine* ;gtf!e
9 aome account of that people, without confining my obaervatiom to
10 the part of it which inhabits the country under diaouanoii i to whose
11 k>cal peculiarities I shall afterwards return.
12 The Uzbeks fii^t crossed the jAxartes about the beginning of the
13 sixteenth century, and poiirinn; on the possessions of the descendants
14 of Tamerlane, soon drove them tirom Bokhaura. ivhoarizm, and Fer-
15 ghauna, and npread terror and dlsmav to the j einotest partsi of their
16 exleiideil t-inpire. They now possess, liesidej* Buikli, the kiiigdoais
17 ot Khouri^iii (or Orgunge), lH>khuuia and Ferghauna, and |)t r)i;ij>s
18 some other Utile countries un tliis. side of Beloot Taugli. 1 am loid
19 that they are to be found beyopd Beloot Tmi^ and as far east as
20 Kboieo at leM^ \ but of tbia I cwmot witfi eoiifi^ce». Th^y
21 bekng to that gvqat diviooa. of tdie bmnaik raoe.whidi ia ..knoim bi
22 Aaia by the name of Tgoffc« and idiidi» wUli th^ Mogida and- JUEau*
23 abooi9» oompoae what we eall tbe Tartar nation. - Eadi of di-
24 iFiakma bap Ita icparate kngiH^ and tb«t of the. Tooiba. ia ipjdety
25 diffiued tbioiiglioot tbe weat of Aaia. The Usbdw, the na^fw of
26 rhiiiffiw Tarlaiyi aa^ at least as Ehoten* and peiliapa.-aa ftr >aa
27 Kanakoormm, the Kuzzauks % and other tribes beyond the Jipauotai^
28 most of the inhabUanta of Eipchak and Crimea, the Toorcauns, an^
29 tbe zubng netkma of tbe Peiaian and Turkiih-empixe^ apaek Toodcee
30 * Tlww Kuzzaulu, who are a tribe of Toorlu, mui>t not be coutuuudcd with tlie (Jo»-
31 Mdu of the Don ftad the BhA Sea, vlioaeem to be&ctitionsiocietiet, fiarmed from
32 the ndghbooring nations. The UdMk% ^riio Imto iMwd of tfMN kit, all Am Kw*
33 inlr OfimnM or BmaiwfJaaMclua
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