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Hamayritick ins rlption was fixed, to have been that which the
avaricious princess opened to the wily Samar; and it is probable
that this inscription commemorated in the language of that Arab,
the success of his stratagem, although we only learn from Ebn
Haukal that it mentioned the distance from Samar to Samarcand.
See page 254—28/, and Preface, p. ix, x, xi.
The paper of Samarcand, to the manufacture of which Tabari
alludes in the preceding extract, is celebrated by various writers.
Although the Arabians do not pretend to have known the inven
tion of it before the eighty-eighth year of the Hegira (A. D. 706),
yet the use of paper was universal among the Persians and Chi
nese in ages of more remote antiquity *. According to Ali hen
Mohammed (quoted by the learned Casiri) the
art of making paper was introduced at Samarcand in the thirtieth
year of the Hegira (A. D. 050) ; and he adds,
" heretofore the use of paper was only known at Samarcand and
" among the Chinese.' , And Casiri f thinks it most probable
that the Arabians learned it from the Persians or Chinese. " Unde
" verisimile profecto est Arabes hujusmodi usum a Persis et
* Biblioth. Arabico-Hisp. Casiri, Tom. II. p. 9.
+ Bibl. Arab. Hisp. Tom. II. p. 9.
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