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he gives to their nation, gollected all 
the traditions and fables respecting 
sovereigns and heroes of antiquity, with 
which they carried the history of the 
empire to upwards of 3,000 years B.C. 
In addition to this a mythological his- 
tory was: forged about the beginning of 
our era, carried up to 2,276,000 years, 
or as some assert, to 3,276,000 years. 
This absurdity was reduced into a sys- 
tem during the ninth century, and 
placed at the head of the history of 
China, under the title of Wace-kee, or 
that whieh is beyond history, which 
clearly shews that they lay no great 
stress on its authority. 
The history of Japan begins with the 
founder of the dynasty of the Dairee, 
660 years B.C. Before that period, the 
Japanese writers give a list of the three 
first Chinese dynasties (these people 
having received their civilization from 
the Chinese), and of that of Too-hee 
and his successors, which is still more 
ancient; and, before that, they have a 
fabulous mythology as absurd as that 
of the Chinese. 
The nations of Central Asia have 
no historical records whatever. Those 
which have been written by the Turks, 
Toungausians, and Mongols, during the 
periods of their splendour, were com- 
posed in Chinese or Persian, and are 
incorporated in the histories of those 
countries. The Mandshoos, who now 
rule in China, are scarcely in posses- 
sion of any fables respecting their ori- 
gin previous to the sixteenth century. 
It is. the same with the Mongols, who, 
during the middle of the thirteenth 
century, formed an immense empire, 
and whose annals do not mount to 
above a century beyond that epoch. 
The annals of the Armenians com- 
prize 2 period from the year 2,107 
B.C., till the year 1080 A.C., when the 
nation was dispersed. Unfortunately, 
however, we are yet but little acquaint- 
ed with the literature of Armenia, al- 
though it is very probable that many 
MSS. that would throw a great light 
on the history of anterior Asia are 
hidden in the convents of the coun- 
try. 
The Georgians have several histori- 
cal works, the most valuable of which 
is that which King Vakhtang V. caused 
to be extracted from the archives of the 
convents of Mzkheta and Ghélathi, in 
the beginning of the eighteenth cen- 
tury. The certain history of the coun- 
try, however, only reaches to the third 
century B.C. whilst their ungertain his- 
tory advances to the fifteenth. 
Walks in London,.—No. Il. 
(Feb. I, 
The present essay is merely to point 
_out the value of the native records of 
the different nations of Asia. It shows, 
as I think, evidently, that the hope of 
finding in the histories of the Asiatics 
more materials for the early history of 
man, than are found in the books of 
Moses, among the Babylonians, Egyp- 
tians and Greeks, is too presumptuous, 
with some exception, perhaps, of the 
Chinese ; whilst there is no doubt that 
from the third century B.C. down- 
wards, much information towards per- 
fecting universal history may be ob- 
tained in Asia. Ringe 
The following table will shew at one 
glance the respective antiquity of the 
certain history of the different nations 
enumerated : 
Arabe 7° S 
Persians .. 3 
Turks.. ..14 ; ; 
Mongols .. 12 Centuries after Christ. 
Hindoos .. 12 
Tibetans .. ] 
Chinese ....9 
Japanese ..7 4 : 
Apaeibans 3 Centuries before Christ. 
Georgians ..3 
I conelude these observations by add- 
ing, that the uncertain history of even 
the most ancient nations, such as the 
Chinese and Hindoos, does not go much 
beyond 3,000 years before our era, or 
about the time of the deluge.—Y. Z. 
—a— 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
Waxks én Lonpon.—No. II: 
Pail-Mail. : 
HE magnificent improvements now 
taking place in the west end of 
London, and particularly in the neigh- 
bourhood of Pall-Mall, invite the pe- 
destrian to visit the spot; and in addi- 
tion to the gratification produced by 
the extreme beauty of the architectural 
embellishments, much amusement may 
be derived in tracing the history of this 
fashionable quarter of the metropolis. 
The space between Charing Cross and 
the Palace of St. James’s, about the 
year 1560, appears to have been fields ; 
during many ‘succeeding years only a 
few houses were erected, and Charles 
II., whilst engaged in improving the 
Park under the direction of Le Notre, 
the famous French gardener, laid out 
the Mall for the exercise of a game so 
called, and long since disused. In those 
days, when spacious street-walks, formal 
canals, and smooth shaven bowling- 
greens, were the prevailing taste, this 
avenue must have been exceedingly de- 
lightful 
