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the fame hordes. Accordingly the two great powers of 

 RufTia and China, thus pointing their views to the fame 

 objct^l:, unavoidably dallied ; and, after feveral jealoufies 

 -and intrigues, broke out into open hoftilities about the 

 year 1680. TheChinefe laid fiege to Kamarflvoi Ortrog, 

 and though repulfed in this attempt, found means to cut 

 off feveral ftraggling parties of Ruffians. Thefe animo- 

 fities induced the Tzar Alexey Michaelovitch to fend an 

 embalTy to Pekin ; but this meafure did not produce the 

 it!!r«ri>tthe ^^^'^ired effea. The Chinefe attacked Albafin with a con- 

 fiderable force : having compelled the Ruffian garrifon 

 to capitulate, they demoliflie<l that and all the Ruffian 

 forts upon the Amoor ; and returned, with a large num- 

 ber of prifoners, to their own country. 



AUiafin rebuilt 

 bv the Ruf 



Clancre, 



Not long after their departure, a body of fixteen hun- 

 eT'by'th^"^" (^i^^d Ruffians advanced along the Amoor; and conftrudled 

 a new fort, under the old name of Albafin. The Chi- 

 nefe were no Iboner apprifed of their return, than they 



Irom obfcurity at the beginning of the fcventeenth century. About that 

 rime their chief Aifchin-Giord reduced feveral neighbouring hordes ; 

 and, having incorporated them with his own tribe, under the general 

 name of Manlhur, he became formidable even to the Chinefe. Shuntfchi 

 grandfonof this chief, by an extraordinary concurrence of circumftances, 

 was raifed while an infant to the throne of China, of which his fuccelTors 

 TtiJl continue in pofleffion. Shuntfchi died in 1662, and was fucceeded 

 by Camhi, who is well known from the accounts of the jefuit miffion- 

 .arics. 



For an account of the revolution of Chlnaj fee Duhalde, Defer, de la 

 Chine, Bell's Journey to Pekin, and Fif. Sic. Gd. torn. I. p. 463. 



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