Excerpt from The General History of China, Vol. 1: Containing a Geographical, Historical, Chronological, Political and Physical Description of the Empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea and Thibet There are feveral other things which might have been but as they will appear in the bell: Light in the Body of the Work it feif they are here omitted; I fhall therefore do nothing more than fubjoin a Catalogue of the Miflionaries from whofe Writings, whether Printed or in Manufcript, it has been extraéted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.