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half fouth-weft of the city King tching, This city 
was called Ten king , or the court of Ten. It became 
afterwards confiderable ; and the prince of Ten very 
powerful in the country of Pe'tcheli and Leao tong. 
In the year 222 before Chrift the emperor TJin chi 
bciing deftroyed the power of the princes of Ten, the 
defendants of Tchao hong, and feized their domi- 
nions. The founder of the dynafty Han deftroyed 
the power of the family of Tfin chi hoang. In the 
time of the dynafty Tfm, before the Chriftian aera, 
and of the dynafty Han, the city of Ten was an im- 
portant government, on account of the neighbourhood 
of the Tartars. Some time after the dynafty Han 
leveral Tartar princes Sien pi made themfelves mafters 
of the country of Ten. During the dynafty of Ta?ig 
the city of Ten was ftill a confiderable one. After the 
deftrinftion of that dynafty the Tartars Ki tan* made 
themfelves mafters of Tartary, and the provinces of 
Chanfy , Pete he It, and Leao tong. Their power was 
formidable to the Chinefe. Their court was in the 
city of Ten, which they adorned and inlarged. Thefe 
Tartars had, like the Chinefe emperors, tribunals ; 
one for the mathematics, and another for hiftory *f~. 
They had likewife fome illuftrious princes, and kept 
fome correfpondence with the Caliphs. 
The Tartars Nuntche deftroyed the power of 
Leao. Their court was alfo at Ten j and they made 
it as magnificent and large a city as Peking is now. 
The Mogol Tartars deftroyed the empire of the 
* This power is called in China the dynafty Leao. 
t There is extant, in the Chinefe and Tartar Mantchcou lan- 
guages, an hiftory of the dynafty of Ki tan. 
Nuntche 
