V. The INDO-CHINESE COUNTRIES. With a small
sketch extracted from a Chinese Map in the possession of Baron von
Richthofen, showing the position of KIEN-CH'ANG, the Caindu of Marco
Polo.
Sketch Map exhibiting the VARIATIONS of the TWO GREAT RIVERS of China,
within the Period of History.
The CITY of SU-CHAU. Reduced by the Editor from a Rubbing of a Plan incised
on Marble, and preserved in the Great Confucian Temple in the City.
The date of the original set of Maps, of which this was one, is
uncertain, owing to the partial illegibility of the Inscription; but it
is subsequent to A.D. 1000. They were engraved on the Marble A.D. 1247.
Many of the names have been obliterated, and a few of those given in the
copy are filled up from modern information, as the Editor learns from
Mr. Wylie, to whom he owes this valuable illustration.
Map of HANG-CHAU FU and its LAKE, from Chinese Sources.
The Map as published in the former edition was based on a Chinese Map in
the possession of Dr. W. Lockhart, with some particulars from Maps in a
copy of the Local Topography, Hang-Chau-fu-chi, in the B. Museum
Library. In the second edition the Map has been entirely redrawn by the
Editor, with many corrections, and with the aid of new materials,
supplied by the kindness of the Rev. G. Moule of the Church Mission at
Hang-chau.
