From coloured
drawing in Mr. Lockhart's book as above (under p. 83).
Script thai of Xieng-hung. From the T'oung-Pao.
Iron SUSPENSION BRIDGE at Lowatong. From Garnier in Tour du Monde.
FORTIFIED VILLAGES on Western Frontier of KWEI-CHAU. From the same.
BOOK SECOND. - PART THIRD.
YANG-CHAU: the three Cities under the Sung.
YANG-CHAU: the Great City under the Sung. From Chinese Plans kindly sent to
the present Editor by the late Father H. Havret, S.J., Zi-ka-wei.
MEDIAEVAL ARTILLERY ENGINES. Figs, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, are CHINESE. The
first four are from the Encyclopaedia San-Thsai-Thou-hoei (Paris
Library), the last from Amyot, vol. viii.
Figs. 6, 7, 8 are SARACEN, 6 and 7 are taken from the work of Reinaud
and Fave, Du Feu Gregeois, and by them from the Arabic MS. of Hassan al
Raumah (Arab Anc. Fonds, No. 1127). Fig. 8 is from Lord Munster's
Arabic Catalogue of Military Works, and by him from a MS. of
Rashiduddin's History.
The remainder are EUROPEAN. Fig. 9 is from Pertz, Scriptores, vol.
xviii., and by him from a figure of the Siege of Arbicella, 1227, in a
MS. of Genoese Annals (No. 773, Supp. Lat. of Bib. Imp.). Fig. 10
from Shaw's Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, vol. i., No.
21, after B. Mus. MS. Reg. 16, G. vi. Fig. 11 from Perts as above,
under A.D. 1182. Fig. 12, from Valturius de Re Militari, Verona, 1483.
Figs. 13 and 14 from the Poliorceticon of Justus Lipsius. Fig. 15 is
after the Bodleian MS. of the Romance of Alexander (A.D. 1338), but is
taken from the Gentleman's Magazine, 3rd ser. vol. vii. p. 467. Fig. 16
from Lacroix's Art au Moyen Age, after a miniature of 13th cent. in the
Paris Library. Figs. 17 and 18 from the Emperor Napoleon's Etudes de
l'Artillerie, and by him taken from the MS. of Paulus Santinus (Lat.
MS. 7329 in Paris Library). Fig. 19 from Professor Moseley's restoration
of a Trebuchet, after the data in the Mediaeval Note-book of Villars de
Honcourt, in Gentleman's Magazine as above. Figs. 20 and 21 from the
Emperor's Book. Fig. 22 from a German MS. in the Bern Library, the
Chronicle of Justinger and Schilling.
COIN from a treasure hidden during the siege of SIANG-YANG in 1268-73, and
lately discovered in that city.
Island MONASTERIES on the YANG-TZU KIANG; viz.: -
1. Uppermost. The "Little Orphan Rock," after a cut in Oliphant's
Narrative.
2. Middle. The "Golden Island" near Chin-kiang fu, after Fisher's
China. (This has been accidentally reversed in the drawing.)
3. Lower. The "Silver Island," below the last, after Mr. Lindley's
book on the T'ai-P'ings.
The West Gate of CHIN-KIANG FU. From an engraving in Fisher's China after
a sketch made by Admiral Stoddart, R.N., in 1842.
