nual amount of six hundred thousand crowns
is insufficient to supply the incessant demands of charity and tribute.
Since the beginning of the last century, the Armenians have obtained a
large and lucrative share of the commerce of the East: in their return
from Europe, the caravan usually halts in the neighborhood of Erivan,
the altars are enriched with the fruits of their patient industry;
and the faith of Eutyches is preached in their recent congregations of
Barbary and Poland. [143]

[Footnote 139: The religion of the Armenians is briefly described by La
Croze, (Hist. du Christ. de l'Ethiopie et de l'Armenie, p. 269--402.) He
refers to the great Armenian History of Galanus, (3 vols. in fol. Rome,
1650--1661,) and commends the state of Armenia in the iiid volume of the
Nouveaux Memoires des Missions du Levant. The work of a Jesuit must have
sterling merit when it is praised by La Croze.]

[Footnote 1391: See vol. iii. ch. xx. p. 271.--M.]

[Footnote 140: The schism of the Armenians is placed 84 years after the
council of Chalcedon, (Pagi, Critica, ad A.D. 535.) It was consummated
at the end of seventeen years; and it is from the year of Christ 552
that we date the aera of the Armenians, (L'Art de verifier les Dates, p.
xxxv.)]

[Footnote 141: The sentiments and success of Julian of Halicarnassus may
be seen in Liberatus, (Brev. c. 19,) Renaudot, (Hist. Patriarch. Alex.
p. 132, 303,) and Assemannus, (Bibliot. Orient. tom. ii. Dissertat.
Monophysitis, l. viii. p. 286.)]

[Footnote 142: See a remarkable fact of the xiith century in the History
of Nicetas Choniates, (p. 258.) Yet three hundred years before, Photius
(Epistol. ii. p. 49, edit. Montacut.) had gloried in the conversion of
the Armenians.]

[Footnote 143: The travelling Armenians are in the way of every
traveller, and their mother church is on the high road between
Constantinople and Ispahan; for their present state, see Fabricius,
(Lux Evangelii, &c., c. xxxviii. p. 40--51,) Olearius, (l. iv. c. 40,)
Chardin, (vol. ii. p. 232,) Teurnefort, (lettre xx.,) and, above all,
Tavernier, (tom. i. p. 28--37, 510-518,) that rambling jeweller, who had
read nothing, but had seen so much and so well]

V. In the rest of the Roman empire, the despotism of the prince might
eradicate or silence the sectaries of an obnoxious creed. But the
stubborn temper of the Egyptians maintained their opposition to the
synod of Chalcedon, and the policy of Justinian condescended to