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De/cription of C H-.1X/    J 
"that Tower witha Guard, where they meafure the Hours by an Hourgl 
"and it isdeclar'or infcrib'd on a Tablet how many Hours, in large Gold
Letters. This is that City, all whofe Streets are pav'd with fquare Ston
"and this is fituate in a Moorifh place, and divided by many Navigable
Cha 
"nels. Lafily, This is the City, to omit other things, from which the
Er 
"peror took his flight unto the Sea by the great River Cientang, the
bread 
"of which exceeds a German Mile. and floweth to the South.fide of the
Cit 
" So that here is the very fame River which Venetus afcribeth unto 9uin/
whence it is'difembogu'd into the Sea towards the Eaff, from which th 
-- ls as rar odiua  as renetus uotn amrm it i aoo, .T nat the compafs ot
the City is above an hundred Italian Miles, if you reckon in the'large Sub.
"urbs, which extend ,very far on everyfide, whence you fhall go over
five 
"hundred Chine/iaii Paces or Stadiums, by walking in a -fraight Line
or Way 
C from North to South through the mofilarge and populous Streets, in which
"you fhall find no place deflitute either of Houfes or People : you
may per- 
"form the like journey almofi from the Well to the North. Seeing therefore
"that according unto the Cinefian Hiflory, the Name, the.Defcription,
the 
Magnitude, and all other Paffages, do demonfirate this to be the City 9jin-
" fai. we ouohr no longer to cueffion or dnbt of the fame.  T,  Iu ,t,,.
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fartiniu, Zvartinii in the Place cited. 
SECT.         I. 
The Voyage, of"Benedia Goes, of the Society of Jefus, into Cathay 
or Chinal taen out of Father Nicholas Trigautius. 
J   hall therefore now briefly fhew whence proceeded that fo great conffioa
Oi   io n  concerning the proper Situation of Cathay. Now it is known 
both fron-the Hiftory of Marcus Paulus Venetus, Haytbo the Armenian, and
alfo from the Chronology of the Cbinefes, that the Great Chain, Emperor of
the 
Tartars, whom fomecall Cbitai, others Ulcam, or 1ncam, ,4nno 1256. making
a 
Breaclh orrruptiop through the Walls, gain'd the whole Empire of the Chine-
fes (which then was divided into two Empires, -whereof the one towards the
North was rall'd Catbav. the other towards the South Manri. whence as the
North part of China, with the other Regions without the Walls, was 
vulgarly call'd Catbay, fo alfo the whole Empire of the Cbinefes b 
poffefs'd, the whole was call'd by the Name of Cathay, by the Tartar 
adjoining Saracens, the Name of the other circtmjacent Regions w 
Walls being utterly extinguifl'd - fo that from that very time, 
Empire of the Chine/es that extended fo far included within the V 
call'l Catbay, by as many as Traflick'd or Merchandiz'd thither fro 
Usbec, Camul, and other Mediterranean Regions, as it is man ifeftfron 
age of our Brother Ienedicl Goes. But becaufe that was not only u 
and decreed by the Command and Advice of the Superiors of our S( 
alfo by the Command of the- Viceroy of eria in India call'd Saldagn 
of the Great Acabar, Emperor of the lfo'gors, both to find out Cathay, 
inflru& in the Cbriftian fRkIiion the Inhabitants of the interjacent
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certainly it was perform'd with all the dilignence and care pofde I 
Goes, a Perfon of great Prudence and Underfianding, and alfo ski 
Perfian Language, which he had excellently attain'd to by a long fla