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Show e ATHAN 451VS KIRCHE R bredth of which exceedeth a Ge man mile, and floweth to the S th fide of th City. So that here is the very fa e River which Venetys a{cribeth u to Quinfa thence it is difembogued into t e Sea towards the Faft, from hich this City i as far diftant as Venetus doth af irm 1. 1 adde, that the comp fs of the Cit is above an hundred Italian mile , if that you reckon in th large Suburbs which extend very far on ev ry fide go over five hundre Chinefian. Paces or Stadiums by walking in a ftraight line o way from Nort to South through the moft lar e and populous ftreets, in whi h you fhall fin no place defiitute cither of Hou es of People; youmay perfor ney almoft from the Wef to the North. See ing theref re that according unto the Chinefran Hiltory, the ame, the Defcripti agnitude, and all othe paflages do demonftrate this t be the City Quinf, az, we ough no longer to queftion, or doubt of the fame. hys Father Martinius Martini; n the Place cited Lot pards Cara? riag at [hf the R1 firufif North) fall r ing bi 25 day Thiev 20t 00 and fr of the SECTIO Aft 1 c'berd" The Voyage of Benedi& Goes f the Society of Tefus, into Catha of Father Nico as Trigantius z;riVC Ou PIace after 1 curred Crarct the Pr The Voyag of Bened:ié Goes for th difcovery o Cathay > Haytho the Armenian, an 25y that the Great Cham Emp rour of the Tartars whom fome ca] Cublai, oth rs ‘Vleam, or Dnecam, Ann 1256. making a breac or irruption through the W lls, gained the whole Empi e of the Chinefe (which then was divided int two Empires, whereof the on towards the Nort was called Cathay, the other gi) ; whence as the Nort part of China, with the othe Regions without the Walls was otherwife calle vulgarly Cathay, {o alfo the hole Empire of the Chinefes be ng now poflefled the whole was called by he name of Cathay by the T rtars and the ad Joyning Saracens, the name o the other circumjacent Region without the Wall - being extinguifhed, fo that i m that very time that only Empi e of the Chinefe that extended (o far included ithin the Walls, was called Ca hay, by as many as trafiqued or merchand;zcd th ther from Indoftan, Usbec, Ca ul, and other Mediterranean Regions 5 as it is ma ifeft from the Voyage of ou Goes Brother Denedsé But becaule that was not only ecreed by the comman and advice of the Superiour of our Society, but alfo by he command of th Viceroy of Ariain India calle Saldagna, yeaand alfo of the perour of the Mogores, b th to find out Cathay, an to inftrué in the Chriftian Perfwafion the Inhabitan s of the interjacent Kingdom performed with all the dilige ; certainly it wa ce and care poflible by Bened;i t Goes, a Perfon very prudent and underftandin , and alfo skilled in the Per ian Language, whic he had excellently artained b a lo Voyage from the Viceroy of ndia taking the habit of the Armenians dulla, that fignifieth the Servant med Ifaac as his infeparable Co p and having alfo the Dipl ma, Patent, or Pafs a nd changing alfo his n me Benediét into AbGod5 and adjoyning unt an Armenian nanionin his Voyage, Anno 603. in the folem Len two d the mul travell Cdfi‘dr, tropoli gion a begin that ce etha Cathay of the Flints almof mal 2 graph age ; hence Alcegb taleol, the Ki Defar regaba 25 da \ing fro tl.li'ng niops of th lme |