“ Hyde, who was one of the first to direct attention to the vast treasures of Oriental antiquity, was an excellent classical scholar, and there was hardly an Eastern tongue accessible to foreigners with which he was not familiar. ”

“ Epistola de mensuris et ponderibus serum sive sinensium (1688) , appended to Bernard’s De mensuris et ponderibus antiquis; Abraham Peritsol itinera mundi (1691) ; and De ludis orientalibus libri II. (1694) . ”