And yet his true Avars are invisible even to the eyes of M.de Guignes; and what can be more illustrious than the false?
The right of the fugitive Ogors to that national appellation is confessed by the Turks themselves, (Menander, p.
108.)] [Footnote 33: The Alani are still found in the Genealogical History of the Tartars, (p.

617,) and in D'Anville's maps.

They opposed the march of the generals of Zingis round the Caspian Sea, and were overthrown in a great battle, (Hist.

de Gengiscan, l.iv.c.9, p.

447.)] [Footnote 34: The embassies and first conquests of the Avars may be read in Menander, (Excerpt.Legat.p.99, 100, 101, 154, 155,) Theophanes, (p.