- E. [27] The Description Given In The Text Of This Chinese Pagoda Has Much The Air Of A Fiction; Yet We Can Hardly Conceive The Author Would Venture To Report To Shah-Rokh What Must Have Been Contradicted By His Ambassadors, If False.

- Astl.

[28] This is called Lam in the French of Thevenot, and is the same with the Lamb of Marco Polo. - Astl.

[29] This is the Cara-moran or Whang-ho, which they crossed a second time between Shen-si and Shan-si, where it is much larger than at Lan-chew, the place probably alluded to in this part of the text. - Astl.

In the edition, by Forster, this river is named Abi Daraan, or the Daraan, afterwards Kara-raan; but is obviously the Kara-moran, Whang- ho, or Hoang-ho. - E.

[30] This other river, certainly is the same Kara-moran, passed again at a different part of their route. - Astl.

[31] This must have been some city in the province of Pe-che-li, or near its borders in Shan-si; but no such name as that of the text is to be found in any of the maps of China. - Astl.

In Forsters edition, this place is named Chien-dien-puhr, perhaps Tchin-teuen-pou, a city at some distance to the west of the Hoan-ho river. The route is not distinctly indicated in the text; but seems to have been from Soutcheo, at the N.W. extremity of Chensi, in lat.

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