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Show The EMBAssy of th from the City fevera Herds of Stags and Bucks, and abundance of ai fort o Fowl, efpecially Pheafants We took great delig_ht in Hunting the Stag, \‘th(éof we kill'd feveral, with the afliftance of the Tartars, who are skilful at Game They were very much pleafed with our way of thooting Pheafants flying The flefh of thofe Deer taftes fo much of Rofemary, asif the Venifon were feafoned with the {prigs 'We were three days upon this Channel 'j'un, before w reached any other confiderable place ; but upon the eleventh of the fame mont we arriv'd at afamous Village called 7ax-Hinno, fituated upon the Royal Channel. Inand about this Village ftand 36 fately Towers, built rarely well, o m either fide of the River : Here we lay all night, but the next morning by br)ea of day wefet Sail, and that day and all the next we {aw Margenting either ban of the River pleafan and plentiful Corn-ground Towar the Eaft of thi RoyfalfiChannel lye feveral high and great Hills, whereof thefe following are th chiefelt \ _/ IR T M \\y\\ \\ m ‘!t!ufiig g Near to Taigany the fixteenth fmall City of Cinnan, appears a Mountain calle Tai, which is very fteep and broad : The Chinefe Geographers fay, that it 1s atleaf five miles in height from the Bafis to the Crown. Upon this Mountain are fevera - Temples, to which belong great ftore of Priefts,who live there after the fame manner as the Calvifians in Europe Not far from Laivu,the eighteenth fmall City o the faid Capita) City, fhews another Mountain called Taxe,out of which they fin great quantity of Iron Near to Ciobu, the fecond fmall City of the chief City Yenachen, neighbours Mountain called Fang, very famous for the Tomb where the Anceftors of tha Learned Chinefe Philo{opher Confutins lies Interr'd Not farfrom the fourth {mall City Cen, lies a Mountain called Changping upon which (as the Chinefes report) Confutins was born, in a Town alfo calle Changping, whereof the Ruines are fiill to be {een Near to Tunping, the eighteenth {mall City of the faid Capiral City, ftands great Mountain called Fung, full of Woods and goodly Paftures ; Upon the thirteenth of the {fame month wecame to Cimzz'ng/?n, o Cining lOl]TtfiCn.th {mall City of the {econ In this Cining the Embafladour lo th chief Cicy Teflgcbeu were nobly Treated in the abfence of th Gover m P() |