d the vanquished nations to resume
their independence and the power of the Turks was limited to a period
of two hundred years. The revival of their name and dominion in the
southern countries of Asia are the events of a later age; and the
dynasties, which succeeded to their native realms, may sleep in
oblivion; since their history bears no relation to the decline and fall
of the Roman empire. [30]

[Footnote 2211: It must be remembered that the name of Turks is extended
to a whole family of the Asiatic races, and not confined to the Assena,
or Turks of the Altai.--M.]

[Footnote 2212: Assena (the wolf) was the name of this chief. Klaproth,
Tabl. Hist. de l'Asie p. 114.--M.]

[Footnote 23: From Caf to Caf; which a more rational geography would
interpret, from Imaus, perhaps, to Mount Atlas. According to the
religious philosophy of the Mahometans, the basis of Mount Caf is an
emerald, whose reflection produces the azure of the sky. The mountain
is endowed with a sensitive action in its roots or nerves; and
their vibration, at the command of God, is the cause of earthquakes.
(D'Herbelot, p. 230, 231.)]

[Footnote 2311: Altai, i. e. Altun Tagh, the Golden Mountain. Von Hammer
Osman Geschichte, vol. i. p. 2.--M.]

[Footnote 24: The Siberian iron is the best and most plentiful in the
world; and in the southern parts, above sixty mines are now worked by
the industry of the Russians, (Strahlenberg, Hist. of Siberia, p. 342,
387. Voyage en Siberie, par l'Abbe Chappe d'Auteroche, p. 603--608,
edit in 12mo. Amsterdam. 1770.) The Turks offered iron for sale; yet the
Roman ambassadors, with strange obstinacy, persisted in believing that
it was all a trick, and that their country produced none, (Menander in
Excerpt. Leg. p. 152.)]

[Footnote 25: Of Irgana-kon, (Abulghazi Khan, Hist. Genealogique des
Tatars, P ii. c. 5, p. 71--77, c. 15, p. 155.) The tradition of the
Moguls, of the 450 years which they passed in the mountains, agrees with
the Chinese periods of the history of the Huns and Turks, (De Guignes,
tom. i. part ii. p. 376,) and the twenty generations, from their
restoration to Zingis.]

[Footnote 2511: The Mongol Temugin is also, though erroneously,
explained by Rubruquis, a smith. Schmidt, p 876.--M.]

[Footnote 2512: There appears the same confusion here. Bertezena
(Berte-Scheno) is claimed as the founder of the Mongol race. The name
means the gray (blauliche) wolf. In fact, the same tradition of the
origin from