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Remarks otN 0 .^ Fan king tchang ; which is 
the place where the foreign claffical books are 
kept. 
Tchang fignifies magazine, or large place, where 
any thing is contained. Fan fignifies firanger or fo- 
reigner ; and king fignifies a claffical book. 
The Jews of Caifong fou , the capital of Honan y 
firfi: told the Jefuit miffionaries, that they conceived, 
that the Hebrew Bible was preferved at Peking in 
the place called Fan king tchang. Thefe firfi: miffio- 
naries neglected to make a fearch for it at Peking, 
or did not think of it. But it did not efcape the at- 
tention of Father Bouvet, a French Jefuit, who went 
to Fan king tchajig. The antient place, w r here the 
foreign books were kept, had been deftroyed and 
thofe books removed into a neighbouring miao, where 
there were bonzes. Father Bouvet went to this nnao 
with two other French Jeluits; but they found only 
the Koran, fragments of the claffical books of the 
Indians, and the claffical books of the lamas ; the 
whole in bad condition. Father Bouvet thought, 
that he faw in an old coffer Chaldee, Syriac, and 
Hebrew characters. The bonze would not fhew the 
place, where Father Bouvet thought that he had 
feen thofe characters, which, on returning to the 
miao, were not found. The emperor had ordered 
the bonzes to fhew every thing to Father Bouvet. 
All the claffical books were afterwards removed to 
the palace ; the miao was demolifhed ; and there 
remained nothing but the name of Fan king tchang. 
When I paffed thro’ Caifong fou i the Jews, in the 
prefence 
