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OF CHINA. 27. 



& with the sericulture which was in after ages looked upon in their tra- 

 ditions as special to their primitive wives in the country wihout geographi- 

 cal distinction between the west and the east of the Flovieiy Land. And 

 it was in comparatively recent times that attempts were made at fostering 

 a legend of invention of the sericulture on some special personage of 

 history. 



.Notes 



99) She hi, kiv. I, fol. 5. 



100) It does not anyhow go further back than the siao tchuen, which is 

 the style of writing emplo} r ed during the last centuries preceding the 

 Christian era- Iu my note on The Oldest Chinese Characters; The 

 Academy, June 15, 1889, p. 416, I have given occasionally the history 

 of this style of characters. 



101) On the late adjunction of determinatives in many cases, cf. S.W., 

 Bushell : Ihe Stone drums of the Chow dynasty, 1874: T. deL. 

 The oldest Booh of the Chinese, § 25, n. 8 ; Introduction to Historical 

 Catalogue of Chinese Money, part VI, 



102) Cf, De Mailla, vol I Preface, p. xlv. 



ll)3) Cf. Wells Williams, Middle Kingdom, vol. II, p. 32. 



104) Hwan T'an, Sin lun. Yuen Kien lui han Kiw 366, fol. 22.— Tu 

 ping yii Ian, Kiv, 814, fol. 3. 



105) Cf. in G. Playfair, Cities and towns of Chin,. Nos. 2426, 2432 

 2658, 4731, 8926. 



10b) The Er-ya says : ' a great mound is called a ling ; ta fou yueh 

 ling. 



107) Er-yi tcheng wen tcheh yn, ed. 1861; II. 9. 



108) Position and meaning unknown in geography. 



109) This is a known variant for the name of the Djurtchen. Cf. my 

 paper on The Djurtchen of Mandshuria, par. 3. But I do not know any 

 other document stating their advance in ancient times southwards at a 

 sufficient proximity to a hill-range, which could be under any aspect looked 

 as south of the ancient Chinese. I am afraid an error must have crept 

 in there. The character sheu may have been mistaken for tcheng town 

 as there was asmall state of that same name, Slk, in Honan, mentioned 

 in the Tsotchuen, Duke Yn. year XI, which by its position answers, 

 the requirement pretty well, 



110) The term used is Y in the first case, and Jung in the second; but 

 the distinction which their difference conveyed in former times was 

 lost when that part of the Er-ya was compiled. 



111) Cf. Playfair, The Cities and towns of China, Nos. 7978 and 1183. 

 Tsing-ning, lat. S5°35'; long.l05°45'. 



112) Namely the Etsina river, east of Su-tchou in Kansuh, which from 

 the slopes of the Nan-shan range runs northwards to the small lakes 

 called S ob o nor and S o g o k nor. 



113) Yh-king ; hi-tze., pt. 2. 



114) Shan hat king, Bk. 18. 



