( 4°5 ) 
the great Wall ^ was finifhed, began his Reign the fifty- 
fecond Year of a Cycle, which is found to be the 
fourth in this chronological Table, reckoning from the 
Cycle of the general Epoque inclufively. This general 
Epoque, as has been already faid, is the firft Year of 
Gael let ^mg 
Now as the Years of the Olympiads had no proper 
or peculiar Names, they were diftinguiftied only by 
' their Order of firlt, fecond, third and fourth : But 
every Year of the Chtnefe Cycle is marked by two 
Letters, which make up its proper CharaQier, and di- 
flinguilh it from the other fifty-nine. Thus the firft 
Year is called (i) :|: Kia and gives its Name to 
the whole Cycle, Thus the fiftyrfecond Year of the 
fourth Cycle, in which the Prince, who finiftied the 
great Wall, began his Reign, is called (x) y mao. 
This Prince, after bloody Wars, became Monarch of 
China ; and then abandoning himfelf to fuch impious 
Pride, as the Philofophers reproached him with, 
caufed himfelf to be called (3) Chi hoang 7 "i, as 
mnch as to fay, thefirj Majter^ the firjl Emperor 
reigning of himfelf',^ for this is the real Signification of 
thefe Characters well analyfed^ and thofe glorious 
Titles belong to G o d alone in the ancient Monuments. 
This unheard of Ufurpation happened in the twenty* 
fixth Year of his Reign, which is the feventeenth 
of the fifth Cycle, and is there called (4) Keng 
Chin, 
lii It 
^ This great Wall juftly pajfes for one of the Wonders of the World, begin~ 
King at the Eaftern Sea, and extending to near Thibet, above four hundred 
and fifty F rench Leagues, 
I The Method of finding this Epoque on the Table is given hereafter, 
4: Vid, Tah, III, Tig, i, 
