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Emperors, lasted also 18000 years 
or moons, 1384 of our years: which 
is an additional proof of con- 
temporary duration. They are said 
to jhave been sons of the Celestial 
Emperors, and fathers of the next 
KI, all of which are sometimes per- 
sonified. They must have been the 
primitive rulers of the Lowlands 
which were called Earth in oppo- 
sition to the Celestial Mountains. 
To them is ascribed the discovery 
of the solar year of 1£ months of 30 
days, making the year of 360 days, 
as it was before the flood. 
3. Gin-hoang meaning Human 
Emperors were nine brothers, sons of 
the Ti-hoang, who divided the earth 
among them, and built cities sur- 
rounded with walls, founded king- 
doms and settled governments, be- 
coming despotic rulers, while before 
or among the other two KI, the 
rulers were only patriarchs. Their 
duration is extended to 45,606 years, 
which if reduced to moons, would 
be only 3508 years. These GIN or 
men appear to be the Jins or Ge- 
nts of the primitive Arabs and Per- 
sians, who came in contact with 
them in East Imalaya and Iran, fa- 
mous in antediluvian history as 
good and beneficent beings, friends 
of the Peris, the ancient Iranians or 
Persians 
That these TIEN, TI and GIN 
were not KI periods, but rather SHI 
or families of mankind, is evident 
by no Dynasties being numbered 
among them. They are often col- 
lectively made a KI named San - 
hoang ; but then the U-long form 
the second KI, while the third has 
no name and therefore no existence. 
I rather consider them as the three 
first KI, either implying three 
eriods, or three divisions of man- 
ind. And I find a fourth division 
in the U-LONG (sometimes deem- 
ed a fourth period) meaning Black 
Monsters or Dragons , a metaphori- 
cal name for the primitive Negroes 
of Asia, born in the sandy and 
sultryregions of Asia, from the GIN 
of whom they are deemed sons and 
successors. These U-long had five 
families or divisions, they were 
barbarians, dwelling in caves and 
on trees. This could not be if they 
had been successors of the civilized 
GIN. 
Of the fourth, fifth, and sixth 
KI very little is said. Lopi as- 
cribes 90,000 years duration to 
them including the U-long , which 
if reduced to moons, would still 
amount to 6923 years, a very long 
period; but it is very probable that 
they were partly contemporary 
with the San-hoang , and some of 
the barbarous branches of mankind, 
since they dwelt in caves, rather 
than towns. Their names were 
4th. Ho-lo, formed of three fami- 
lies or tribes: (are they the ancestors 
of the Lolo tribes of south-west 
mountains of China?) 
5th . Lien-tong , six families or 
tribes. 
6 ih, Su-ming , four families or 
tribes. 
The signification of their names 
which is most given, would perhaps 
trace their connection with other 
Asiatic Nations. The last re- 
sembles the Samangs and Shamans 
of Asia. 
The seventh KI is called Sun- 
Jet, and had twenty -two families or 
tribes, of which hardly any thing is 
related, except that under the last 
SHI or family Tse-she, men were 
more civilized, but a flood happened 
which began the eighth period of 
Yn-ti as stated above. 
After this flood, the history of 
China assumes a different form, and 
the names of the families, tribes or 
dynasties are given. The subject 
shall not be now pursued any 
further; the antediluvian history of 
China alone is here to be illustrated. 
It becomes very prolix as we 
advance. It has been sufficient to 
show and prove that the Chinese 
have traditions of the state, of the 
earth before the flood, as known to 
them in Eastern Asia, that the 
Asiatic Negroes were antediluvians, 
and that the deluge of Yao* is not 
