( 40 ? ) ' 
tells us, he has taken it from the moll: valued hiftorical 
Work in his Country What renders this Writer 
Praife- worthy, is his ranging his Syflem in a beauti- 
ful Order, which gives an extream Facility of fee- 
ing at firft Sight the Series of the Dynaflies, or Im- 
perial Houfes, the Names and Succeflion of the Em- 
perors, the Beginning, End and Duration of each of 
their Reigns. 
However, this is not the only Advantage of this 
new Table: The ancient Chronology of China is 
therein reduced to its true Beginnings. The mofl: re- 
mote Epoque of this Chronology, according to IQien 
hi yao^ does not furpafs the firfl: Year of a Prince 
called Guei lie ^ang^ who began his Reign 414 
Years before the vulgar Mx2l, Some there are, who 
think this Epoque might ftill be broughtnearer to us ; 
not to fix there the Origin of the Nation, which, for 
ftrong Reafons, may be traced back to Time near the 
Deluge j but becaule from much later Date only, doth 
any Certainty appear, of whatever is pretended to have 
befaln this famous People, f Se ma quang znA Ychu 
hi^ the two graved: Hiftorians China has produced^, 
were of this Opinion. The firfl fiourifhed in the Year 
of Chrifi 1061, :j: the fecond about the End of the 
twelfth Century. They have both omitted whatever 
is before the Time of Gueilieisoang^ nor would they 
mention ought of it in their Hiflories : Nay, they 
have not begun them till the twenty-third Year of 
Guei 
china is now the Country of thefe Tartars who were horn there f nee the 
Conquejl, that h about ninety Years fince. 
f Se ma wen, or Sema wen Kong, 
i Soeculo 11°. vel iz®. Soeculo 13®. 
