a continente autem ad Persidis fines accedit. Ea porro atra idololatriae caligine olim obducebatur, atque extrema barbarie scatebat, nefariisque flagitiis addicta erat.
but on the mainland it marcheth with the borders of Persia, a land formerly darkened with the gloom of idolatry, barbarous to the last degree, and wholly given up to unlawful practices.