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[178 ]Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China during the years 1844-46, by M. Huc. Translated by W. Hazlitt. London, i. 61.
[179 ]Social Life of the Chinese, by Rev. Justus Doolittle. New York, 1867, ii. 65.
[180 ]China: Its State and Prospects, by W. H. Medhurst. London, 1838, p. 217.
[181 ]Ibid., p. 188.
[182 ]Researches into the Physical History of Mankind, by James Cowles Prichard, M.D., F.R.S. London, 1844, iv. 496-7.
[183 ] Tylor's Anthropology, p. 21.
[184 ]The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian, Made English by G. Booth. London, 1700, p. 21.
[185 ]History of Ancient Egypt, by George Rawlinson, M.A. London, 1881, i. 369.
[186 ]Records of the Past, Edited by S. Birch, LL.D., D.C.L., etc. London, vi. iii.