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fettle the Southern frontiers of the Ruffian empire in 

 that quarter ; and to obtain the permiffion of renewing 

 the trade with China. Accordingly tliat embaffadur 

 prefented a new plan for a treaty of Umits and com- 

 merce to Yundfchin, fon and fuccellbr of Camhi ; by 

 which the frontiers of tlie two empires were finally 

 traced as they exiil; at prefent, and the cx)mmerce efta- 

 bliflned upon a permanent bails, calcvilated to prevent 

 as far as poffible all future fources of miiunderitand- 

 ing. This plan being approved by the emperor, Chi- 

 nefe commiffioners viere immediately appointed to ne- 

 gotiate with the Ruliian embalTador upon the banks 

 of the Bura, a fmail liver which flows, South of the 

 confines of Siberia, into the Orchon near its junilion 

 with the Selenguo 



Treay of ^t tlils confercnce, the old limits, which are mentioned 



K.iatchta. 



in the treaty of Nerffiinik, were continued from the 

 fource ot the Argoon Weftwards as far as the mountain 

 Sabyntaban, which is fituated at a fmall diftance from 

 the fpot where the conflux of the two rivers Uleken and 

 Kemtzak form the Yenisei : this boundary feparates the 

 Ruffian dominions from the territory of the Mongols, 

 ■who are vmder the protedion of China. 



It was likewife ftipulated, that for the future all ne- 

 gotiations ffiould be tranfa(5ted between the tribunal of 

 5 foreign 



