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The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 49 — THE HISTORIE OF THE MIGHTIE KINGDOME OF CHINA, IN THE WHICH IS CONTAINED THE NOTABLE THINGS OF THAT KINGDOME, TOUCHING THAT WHICH IS NATURALL.

Robert Parke translation

The Tartar province of Leao-tung, in which the wall commences, has also the name of Quantonz: see Gutzlaff's Map of China and Biot's Dictionnaire des noms anciens et modernes des Villes, etc., dans l'Empire Chinois, fo. 86. From this it is evident that our author is now considering the work in its course from east to west, and not from west to east, as in the commencement of this paragraph.

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