When we have by so distinct an exposition rendered all these points clear, those men who are acquainted with the difference between alum and sugar, good and bad, and in whose essence is a leaven of science, will, no doubt, listen to reason, and, by Divine grace, being brought under conviction, will submit themselves to the book of God, mighty and powerful! THE END. Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers-Street, London. ----- Footnote 1: A great Roman pavement is still visible in Wallachia. It begins at a small town called _Caracalla_, situated near the borders of the Danube, about three miles from the place where the great river Olt falls into it: and it runs up in a straight line with this river, as far as the Carpathians, where its traces are lost. It probably led to the Dacian capital, Zarmiss, which is now a Transylvanian town, and contains many ruins of Roman monuments of an inferior kind. The Latin language is almost the only one spoken by its present inhabitants. Footnote 2: Antonii Bonifici Asculani Rerum Hungaricarum Decades. Decad. ii. lib. 8. Footnote 3: Knolles’s History of Turkey, p. 204. and Tounousli’s, Ισορια Ιης βλαχιας, p. 247. A piaster and a half is equal to an English shilling. Footnote 4: Knolles’s History, p. 296. Footnote 5: Dracula in the Wallachian language means Devil. The Wallachians were, at that time, as they are at present, used to give this as a surname to any person who rendered himself conspicuous either by courage, cruel actions, or cunning. Footnote 6: Although the amount of the tribute was often increased under the successive Voïvodes, the same formalities of payment existed as late as the year 1716, when various changes took place in the Wallachian government, as will be observed hereafter. Footnote 7: Nobles. Footnote 8: Christian tributary subjects. Footnote 9: A Ferman is a written order issued by the Grand Vezier in the Sultan’s name. Footnote 10: Higher clergy and nobility. Footnote 11: Cantimir’s History of the Ottoman Empire, p. 186. Footnote 12: Cantimir’s History of the Ottoman Empire, p. 451. Footnote 13: Cantimir’s History, p. 452. Footnote 14: Chamberlain. Footnote 15: “It has been supposed that the Turks, to console the Greek descendants of the imperial family for the loss of empire, had bestowed on them the government of the two principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, an error which appears to have no other foundation than the assumption of the illustrious name of Cantacuzenus, by two persons of obscure family, born in Wallachia, who were raised to the administration of that principality in the seventeenth century.” Thornton’s present State of Turkey, p. 385, from Cantimir’s Ottoman Hist. p. 371. Footnote 16: