[293] Berynto, a city on the seacoast of Syria, Phœnicia.

[294] Sining is on the western frontier of Kansuh, towards Kokonor.

[295] Pinkerton’s Voyages, vol. xv. p. 23.

[296] Pinkerton’s Voyages, vol. vii. p. 333.

[297] Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China. Huc and Gabet. Translated by W. Hazlitt, vol. ii. p. 245.

[298] Gosse, Romance of Natural History.

[299] Prejevalski’s Mongolia, vol. ii. p. 207; London, 1876.

[300] See ’Rh Ya and Yuen Keen Luy Han, vol. ccccxxix. p. 1.

[301] This height will have to be reduced in accordance with the difference between the magnitude of old and new standards of measurement.

[302] A poet, native of Hang Cheu.