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Excerpt from An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, From the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century, Vol. 3 of 6: In Which the Rise, Progress, and Variation of Church Power Are Considered in Their Connexion With the State of Learning and Philosophy, and the Political History of Europe During That Period VII. A great revolution in A az'ic Tartary, which The {retreat borders upon Cat/say, changed the face of things in Egg? That difiant region about the commencement of this changes in century, and proved, by its effects, extremely bene-ffic'guobi. Ficial to the Chrifiian caufe. Towards the conclufion ms, of the preceding century, died koiremchan, otherwife called kenchan, the mof't powerful monarch that was known in the eaf'tern regions of a; and while that mighty kingdom was deprived of its chief, it was invaded, with fuch uncommon valour and fuccefs, by a Nefiorian prief't, whofe hame was john, that it fell before his victorious arms, and acknowledged this warlike and enterprifing prq/byter as its monarch. This was the famous prester john, whofe territory was, for a long time, confidered by the Europeans as a fecond paradife, as the feat of opulence and complete felicity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."