| Title | : | Historical Lectures and Essays |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Charles Kingsley |
| Release | : | 2012-06-19 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | History, Books |
| Size | : | 118825 |
| In that mountain province called Farsistan, north-east of what we now call Persia, the dwelling-place of the Persians, there dwelt, in the sixth and seventh centuries before Christ, a hardy tribe, of the purest blood of Iran, a branch of the same race as the Celtic, Teutonic, Greek, and Hindoo, and speaking a tongue akin to theirs. They had wandered thither, say their legends, out of the far north-east, from off some lofty plateau of Central Asia, driven out by the increasing cold, which left them but two mouths of summer to ten of winter. |
