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Nuntche or Kin. Their court was at fuft at Tern 
but the Tartar Mogol emperor Koublay demolilhed 
that city, and built what is now called King tching : 
at lead King tching is a good part of the city built 
by Koublay, which was fome /y larger. The em- 
peror’s palace was likewife larger. 
This city King tching is that, which Marco Paulo 
calls Cambalu. Car is khan , which fignifies a king • 
and baht is a corruption of an old Mogol word balga y 
or balah , which fignifies a city : whence is formed 
the word balgafan in Mogol or Mongou, which fig- 
nifies city. Khan balu , or khan baton , fignifies the 
royal city. King tching , in the time of Marco Paulo, 
was the capital of the empire of China. The Per- 
fians and Arabians, from the Mongou word khan 
balou , or khan balgajiin , or khan balga , formed the 
word khan batik or khan balek , which fignifies alio 
the royal city. This name was given by the eaftern 
people to the city of Caifongfou, the capital of Honan, 
and to that of Nanking , the capital of Kiangnan , at 
the time when thefe cities were the court of princes. 
This name was alfo given to the cities of Tartary,, 
when fome powerful princes kept fometimes their 
court there. What I have remarked concerning the 
words khan balik , khan balek , khan balga , &c. is to 
be applied to the words ordo balik , ordou balik. Ordo y 
or ordou , or orfo y fignifies royal, imperial, in the Mo- 
gol or Mongou language. So ordou balik fignifies a 
court, a royal city ; and thefe words are in fad: the 
names of fome old cities, where the Mogol or Mon- 
gou kings kept their courts. 
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