which the faid River pafleth, and of all the Catara<as of it? 
and then of the Climate, and Temperature , MouncsioSj Fer 
tility. Herbs , Trees , Animals Wild and Tame5and theiodr 
nations of the inhabitants 5 befi ies , of the Read Sea , aoJ. the 
reafonofits Appelkition: Touching which particulars we Tiuft 
not here enlarge, but remit the Reader to the Back it felfj 
or({ince Copies of it are difficult to be had) to the RVlifions 
lately Engliflb'd by Sir Titer W)ch^ and printed for Mi Uhn 
MartfH'y wherein the maire p 'flages, whichconc raethe Na- 
tural productions tn\ other Curious Obfervables of that vaft 
Country , are defcribed. 
III. AnHISTORICAL ESSAY Eadeavouring 
a Probability, Thit the L A N G U A G E of C H I N A is the 
Primitive L4ngmge 5 by lehn Webb E '^uire. Printed for Nath^ 
in London 5 166^. in 80, 
This fiirprifingEffiy attempts to make it out from Authori- 
ties, Judged by the Writer thereof unqueflionable , That the 
have been a people, ever fincethe Flood of i\r^^4^ and 
before t he Gonfufion of Tongues (at which they were not pre- 
fent in his opinion 5 )!r^4^ their Language hath cintiniaily in- 
all times 5 from their firft beginning of being a Nation, been 
preferv'd in written Books 5 Tto the Charaders, wherein thofe 
Books be written 5 are thefelf fame, whicj'^from all Aotiquiiy 
were extraded fiom their Original Hierog^yphicks That in 
tfcofe Chiradiers their Lmguige hith ever fince confided, :^nd^ 
according to them , is at this prefent day fpoken purely 5 and 
thM by the ftme Charaders their Language is generally under- 
ftood through the whole Chinefe world : From all which , coo« 
fidered together, the Author concludes 5 that the M^them 
Natural' Language of C/^i;?^ remaiaes in its Anti^nt parity wiih- 
out any alteration. 
How credible the Allegations here deliver'd , and how co- 
gent the Difcourfes and Inferences , grounded thereon, are, wg 
lauftleaveto thelu lgementof the fagacious Reader 5 and /hall 
•only further take notice of the Angular diligence of this Author 
in eolkiSing occafionally and abbreviating many of the moft re-| 
remarkabk; 
