[2] 1 tael equal to 6s. 6d.
[3] Father Gerbillon, a Jesuit, was the Chinese plenipotentiary who concluded the treaty of Nerchinsk with the Russians, in 1689.
[4] These cabbages are said to have been originally introduced from Russia.
[5] See Bell of Antermony.
[6] Huc.
[7] Histoire des Huns, De Guignes, Paris, 1756.
[8] Bell.
[9] Un. Hist., vol. iv. p. 77.
[10] De Guignes. Hist. des Huns.
[11] Memoirs of Baber. Erskine's Introd.