the age of infancy

Ready for some barneymugging, bird? Thirt asked.

Geographers and historians have been sadly puzzled where to find its site; and some, as Malte Brun, have supposed it to have been merely a summer abode of the Karait and Mongolian Khans, like that of Zheholl, where the emperor or khan long received the British embassy.

The degree of proverbiality, or currency in oral tradition, attained by these exaggerations is difficult to assess.