- E. [9] Perhaps An Error In Transcription For Hara-Moran, Or Kara-Moran, The Mongul Or Tartar Name Of The Hoang-Ho, Or Whang River, Near, And Communicating With Which, Hoaingan, Or Whan-Gan-Fou Is Situated.

- E.

[10] This is an obscure indication of navigable canals on each side of the paved road of communication to the south. - E.

[11] Cin-gui, or in the Italian pronunciation, Chin, or Tsin-gui, may possibly be Yen-tching. Tin-gui may be Sin-Yang, or Tsin-yang, to the north-east of Yen-tching. - E.

[12] Obviously Yang-tcheou, the latter syllable being its title or designation of rank and precedency. Marco certainly mistakes, from distant recollection, the direction of his travels, which are very nearly south, with a very slight deviation towards the east. South-east would by this time have led him into the sea. - E

[13] Though called a province, this obviously refers to the city of Nankin; the Nau-ghin of the text being probably a corruption for Nan-ghin. - E

[14] For west, we ought certainly here to read south-west. - E.

[15] Quiam, Kiang, Kian-ku, Kin-tchin-kian, or Yang-tsi-kiang. In modern maps, there is a town on the northern shore of this river, named Tsing-Kiang, which may possibly be the Singui of Marco, and we may perhaps look for the Sian-fu of the Polos at Yang-tcheou, at the southern extremity of a chain of lakes immediately to the north of the river Kian-ku.

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