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pressed l)y a repetition of 12 names of certain animals, which are for the most 

 part the same with those employed, for the same purpose, by the Chinese and 

 Mogul Tartars, from whom we may conclude it has been borrowed ; but the 

 meagre and unsatisfactory examples of its application, furnished by M. Loubere 

 and P. Tachard, do not afford us the means of determining at what time they 

 began to reckon their cycle. It appears only that the year l687 was the 10th 

 of the lesser or constituent cycle of 12 years. 



END OP THE EIGHTIETH VOLUME OP THE ORIGINAL. 



END OF VOLUME SIXTEENTH. 



C. ani R. Baldwin, Prinleri, 

 New Bridge-Street, London. 



