Chapter IV: Part 4

A HISTORY of ANCIENT INSTITUTIONS, CUSTOMS, and INVENTIONS; selected and abridged from the Beytrage zur Geschichte der Eraudungen of Professor BECKMANN, of the University of Gottingen. With various important Additions. In Two Volumes, 12mo. price 15s. boards.

Transcriber’s Notes

‣ Italics represented by surrounding _underscores_.

‣ Small caps converted to ALL CAPS.

‣ Footnotes renumbered consecutively within each chapter and moved to
the end of those respective chapters.

‣ Obvious typographic errors silently corrected.

‣ Variations in hypenation and spelling kept as in the original.

‣ Duplicate chapter titles omitted.

‣ The spellings of “Ostiak” and “Ostjak” from the original have been
standardized to the modern “Ostyak”.