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Keign he conquered by his Generals a Prince of far* 
tary named Kaldan^ this Vidory is faid to be gained 
the thirty-eighth Year of Kang hi^ or of the lading 
.and glorious franqiiillity. 
The Letters (i8) Tn Tchin compofe the Name of 
his fourth Son, who now reigns ; wherefore the 
Ufe of thefe Letters is and will be prohibited until a 
new Government. As to the Title of Canonization, 
by which this Prince is to be recorded in Hiftory, it 
will not be given him till after his Death. But upon 
his Acceflion to the Crown, as he had a great Num- 
ber of Brothers and Nephews, he took for Epoque 
of his Years the two Letters (29) Tong Tching^ 
which fignify DireB Concord , to give to underftand, 
that if his Brothers and Nephews pay him the Re- 
fpeft and SubmilTion they owe him, he would treat 
them with Kindnefs. ' 
The Emprefs his Mother died fome few Months 
after he began his Reign ^ fo the Death of this 
Princefs will be marked in Hiftory in the firft Year of 
Tong Tchingy or of the Diredl Concord, Thus will 
all other Incidents be fixed by the Years of the DireH 
Concord in which they will happen. 
It is plain from thefe Examples, that the Names of 
Emperors, and the Names of their Epoques are eften* 
tially different, and that thofe of the Epoques com- 
prehend very inftrudive Meanings, the underftanding 
which muft be of great Service to the clearing up of 
Hiftory. 
But there is great Danger left the Name of an 
Epoque be made the Name of an Emperor, which 
would double the Number of Emperors, fuppofing 
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