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Thefe Names placed exadly on the Lines, where 
are the Beginnings of the Dynafties to which they be« 
long, are as fare Guides for eafily finding them, and 
under the Direction whereof one comes without Dif- 
ficulty to the Knowledge of the Emperors of thefe 
Imperial Families, as well as the Incidents of their 
Reigns. 
This Cycle is placed in the Middle, in a perpendi- 
cular Line or Column, which extends from the Top 
to the Bottom of the Table, and is divided into fixty 
little Lodges or fquare Area's^ every one of which 
anfvvers a Year of the Cycle, and contains the Name 
of theYear it anfwers. The Angles, or empty Spaces 
which furround the Name in each of thefe Lodges, 
were coloured black, that the whole may the more rea- 
dily ftrike the Reader’s Eye, and be the more eafily 
diftinguilhed. 
On the Right and Left of the Cycle thus placed are 
ranged twenty other Columns, divided into fixty 
Lodges each, in the fame manner as the Cycle s 
and confequently equal to the Cycle to which they 
are parallel. 
It is in the Lodges of thefe Columns parallel to the 
Cycle, that the Years of the Emperors are difpofed in 
their natural Order for above two thoufand Years, 
They are difpofed from Top to Bottom, from the 
Right to the Left, after the Chtnefe Cuftom \ but to 
avoid Miftake, I mean the Right and Left to the 
Perfon who reads the Table. ' And it is eifential to 
remark, that the Arangement is fuch, that each of 
thefe Imperial Years referred to the Column of 
the Cycle by an horizontal Line which falls at 
