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right Angles on this Column, anfwers the Year 
of the fame Cycle, whofe Name it bears in Hi- 
{lory‘s. 
Purfuant to this Explanation, the firfl: Year of the 
Prince named Guei Vie uoang^ at which begins the 
Table, whereof that is the Epoque, will be found in 
the firft Column at the right Hand, pretty near the 
Bottom, under the Author’s fmall Preface j and op- 
polite to the fifty-third Year of the Cycle called (19) 
Pin chin , becaufe in Hiftory this firfl: Year of Guei 
lie ^mng has the two Letters Ping chin for its Cha- 
radleriftic. 
The Reafon why this firfl Year of Guei lie isoang 
is taken for the general Epoque of the whole Table, 
is, becaufe there is neither Clearnefs nor Certainty in 
the Hiftory before it; But if, becaufe this firft Year of 
Guei lie ^ang\s taken for an Epoque, it were placed 
oppofite to the firft Year of the Cycle, it would occafion 
an Anachronifm of fifty-three Years. A capital Point, 
to which thofe, who intend to ufe this Chronological 
Table, cannot give too much Attention. 
In a Word, fince Hiftory has given this firft Year 
of Guei lie ^ang the Name of Pin chin, it is not al- 
lowed to give it any other in the Table j and one is 
obliged to refer it therein to the Year of the Cycle 
that bears that Name, under the Penalty of being 
guilty of confounding Time, and puzzling Chronc^ 
logy. ^ 
It is in this Arrangement that all the Artifice of this 
new Table confifts. And this Point once well un- 
^ k k derftood, 
