NOTE

The author wishes to state that Lecture 8 in this work was written twelve years since; and that the authorities he then consulted fixed the rise of the Turkish empire at 1298. He is now satisfied, by the examination of other authorities on the subject, that the foundation of that empire was laid in 1299. Hence the things mentioned in Lecture 7 (p. 109,) relative to persecutions, etc., and to the coming of the third woe, as mentioned in Lecture 13, (p. 202,) which he supposed would take place in 1839, according to the first computation, will not be realized until the year 1840.MWV2 300.2