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B. Works consulted, but from which no extracts have 



been translated, 



Hai-kuo Tu-Ghi (*), //Maps and Descriptious of Éoreign Countries 11 , publish- 

 ed in 18-1 1 by a Chinese official. This is, as the title says, a geographical account 

 of foreign countries , and a very valuable güide in researclies as the present , because 

 for every country it gives most abundant quotations from what has been written about 

 it in the literature of China. 



Ta-shih T'ung-tien ( 2 ), an account of the institutions and geography of China, 

 from the eaiiiest tiïries' down to the middle of the 8th century. It has a section on 

 foreign countries, containing . nothing original. 



Ta Ming Yi-t'ühg Ghi ( 3 ), //Universal Geography of the Ming dynasty", 

 with a section on foreign countries , copied from other sources. 



Wen IXsien T'ang-k'au ( 4 ), the celebrated cyclopedia of Ma Tuan-lin, 

 containing however nothing nèw or fit for our purpose. 



Yü Hai ( 5 ), a cyclopedia from the beginning of the 12th century. 



San-ts'ai T'u Hui ( G ), an illustrated cyclopedia from the beginning of the 

 16th century. 



Yiian-chien Lei-han ( 7 ), a very voluminous cyclopedia from the beginning 

 of the 18 th century. 



Hai-kuo "Wen-chien-lu ( 8 ), a small geographical treatise, chieily relating 

 to the islands in the eastern and southern ocean , published in 1744. 



Yiieh-tung Chien-wên ( 9 ), //Notices about Canton 11 , published in the 

 year 1801. 



Kwang-tung T'ung-chi ( 10 ), //General description of the province of 

 Canton 1 '. 



Hsia-mèn Ghi ( n ), //Description of Amoy 11 . 



Ch'üan-chou-fu Ghi ( 12 ), //Description of the district of Ch'üan-chou 11 . 



Hua Yi Fèng-t'u Ghi ( 13 ), //An Account of Customs and Products of 

 China and Eoreign Countries 11 , published in 1591. 



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