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23) And also lacquer, hemp, a finer and coarser hempen cloth ; also 

 occasionally stones for polishing sounding-stones. 



24) Written . (8078-2568) Sien kwang. 



25) The offered products consisted in sonorous stones, iron, silver, steel, 

 stones for arrowheads, and sounding stones, skins of bears, oreat 

 bears, foxes, jackals, and articles woven with their hair. 



26) The sole articles offered, were hair-cloth, and skins from the tribes 

 of Kuenlun, Sihtche, and K'iuson. 



27) Meddhurst, The Shoo King, p. 92. translates . stuffs of various 

 colours.— Legge, Chinese Classics, vol. Ill, p. 99, has: woven 

 ornamental fabrics. — Panthier, Chine Ancienne, p. 48, translates : 

 ' tissus de diverses couleurs.' 



28) Hiuen is properly a black hue with a flush of red in it. 

 2 9) Shiooh Wen, sub verb. 



30) Wells Williams, Syll. Diet. p. 800. 



31) Kanghi tze tien, 120 + 17 fol. 65 verso, quoting the Li Kien tchuan, 

 a late work. A commentator of the Tsien Han Shu explains it 

 as : fi n e cl o t h. . 



32) The Shoo King, p. 96. 



33) Chinese Classics, vol III, p. 107. — Pauthier, Chine, p. 48, trans- 

 lates : ' soie rouge, noire, et blanche.' 



34) Ibid. p. 111. 



35) The Shoo King, p. 98. 



36) Cf. Er-ya — Shwoh Wen. — Tchou li, Kao hung hi. 



37) Chinese Classics, vol. Ill, p. 116. — The Shoo king, p. 101. Pauthier, 

 Chine, p. 49, translates : ' pieces de soie noire et rouge.' 



38) The Shwoh wen explains it by Na. ravelled silk, and the Yii 

 pien by Mien, new silk. Cf. Kanghi tzetien, 120 + 15, fol. 63. 



39) The Shoo King, p. 102 — Chinese Classics, vol. Ill, p. 119. — Pa- 

 thier, Chine, p. 49, translates : ' toiles fines et fil de coton.' 



40) Shu King, Yu Kung, III, 



41) This Ode Tsih yueh classified in the She King as the first among 

 those of Pin, is supposed by the commentators to refer chiefly to the 

 manners of the first settlers in Pin under the rule of Duke Liu. But 

 the piece does not bear any internal evidence of this contention. 

 Neither Pin nor the Duke Liu are mentioned therein, 



42) The term hiuen here translated dark lsjthe same as note 28. 



43) Cf. James Legge, Chinese Classics, vol. IV, pp. 228-9, and notes. 



44) In Shansi, only little silk is produced, namely about 700 piculs 

 annually in Kaw silk, of which- 500 piculs are wild. Cf. China. Im- 

 perial Maritime Customs II. — Special Series : No, 3, Silk, 1881, pp. 

 20-21. Nothing is said of silk in Shensi. M, Natalis Rondot of 

 Lyon, in the statistics he has compiled from older documents for the 

 Exhibition of 1878 in Paris has included the names of Shansi and 

 Shensi in his figures. The latter province however is referred to only 

 for Oak silkworms. 



45) Notably by F. von Richtofen ; cf. H. Yule. The book o/Ser Marco 

 Polo, vol. II,p.l8. 



46) Tchou-li, Tchihfang she, XXIII, fol. 17.— Ed. Biot, Le Tchou-ll 

 ou Sites desTche'ou, 1851, vol. II, p. 269. 



47) The commentary of Y-fu says that this province which existed at 



