, 23;) and a Frenchman (D'Anville) is more
accurately skilled in the geography of their own country, (Hist. de
l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom. xxxi.)]

[Footnote 7: Chalcocondyles, a competent judge, affirms the identity of
the language of the Dalmatians, Bosnians, Servians, Bulgarians, Poles,
(de Rebus Turcicis, l. x. p. 283,) and elsewhere of the Bohemians,
(l. ii. p. 38.) The same author has marked the separate idiom of the
Hungarians. * Note: The Slavonian languages are no doubt Indo-European,
though an original branch of that great family, comprehending the
various dialects named by Gibbon and others. Shafarik, t. 33.--M. 1845.]

[Footnote 8: See the work of John Christopher de Jordan, de Originibus
Sclavicis, Vindobonae, 1745, in four parts, or two volumes in folio. His
collections and researches are useful to elucidate the antiquities of
Bohemia and the adjacent countries; but his plan is narrow, his style
barbarous, his criticism shallow, and the Aulic counsellor is not free
from the prejudices of a Bohemian. * Note: We have at length a profound
and satisfactory work on the Slavonian races. Shafarik, Slawische
Alterthumer. B. 2, Leipzig, 1843.--M. 1845.]

[Footnote 9: Jordan subscribes to the well-known and probable derivation
from Slava, laus, gloria, a word of familiar use in the different
dialects and parts of speech, and which forms the termination of the
most illustrious names, (de Originibus Sclavicis, pars. i. p. 40, pars.
iv. p. 101, 102)]

[Footnote 10: This conversion of a national into an appellative name
appears to have arisen in the viiith century, in the Oriental France,
where the princes and bishops were rich in Sclavonian captives, not of
the Bohemian, (exclaims Jordan,) but of Sorabian race. From thence the
word was extended to the general use, to the modern languages, and even
to the style of the last Byzantines, (see the Greek and Latin Glossaries
and Ducange.) The confusion of the Servians with the Latin Servi, was
still more fortunate and familiar, (Constant. Porphyr. de Administrando,
Imperio, c. 32, p. 99.)]

[Footnote 11: The emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, most accurate
for his own times, most fabulous for preceding ages, describes the
Sclavonians of Dalmatia, (c. 29-36.)]

[Footnote 12: See the anonymous Chronicle of the xith century, ascribed
to John Sagorninus, (p. 94-102,) and that composed in the xivth by the
Doge Andrew Dandolo, (Script. Rerum. Ital. tom. xii. p. 227-2