History of Armenia, by Father Michael Chamich; from B. C. 2247 to ...

PREFACE.
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History of Armenia in three large quarto volumes, of
about 1,000 pages each, compiled from the historical
works of various authors who flourished in Armenfa in
various times, and wrote the accounts of their own days,
of whom I shall give a detailed biographical account
in its proper place. In the year 1811, Father Chamich
published an abridgment of his own history, of which
the present volume is a translation. In this some references
are made by the author to the enlarged history,
for example, " See Hist. B.I. c. 3.", which I have inserted
in the beginning of my translation, but I subsequently
thought proper to omit them. I would have
made notes at the end of each of these references, had
I not been convinced that they would have considerably
increased the size of the work, and obliged me to issue a
third volume, while the support I
have hitherto received
is barely sufficient to defray the expenses incurred in
printing the two.
III.—I am compelled by a love of truth, and
not by a
spirit of religious controversy, to speak briefly of the
partiality of Father Michael Chamich in religious aff*airs'
Perhaps it
would not be uninteresting to give a detailed
explanation to the reader on this head, but considering
the abridgtd form of the present volume, I deem it
necessary to make my remarks in as few words as possible.
Father Michael Chamich, though an Armenian by birth,
was attached to the Romish Church, as I have stated
above. In his preface to the enlarged History he promises
to write with mipartiality, and to shew the truth
in his writing, but alas! in the course of the ecclesiastical