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Show - A General Defcription" o e s S s . el e Thi A s el W P = cruel Wars one againft another forabove gooyears -h'%_._n"-m..‘,.‘, . ."‘1 Family being brought under, the fixth Rac a got intg th Throne, and governed till the year o Grace 419. within the compals of wh years, there were five Kings at one time, who were called ‘ tai, and waged ve At laft having worried an weakned each other, they were all fubdaed by the feventh Race called Ta which feized upon the whole Empire, and reign d with his Pofierity till the of Chrift 618. . A . No {aoner was thi's Racge of Tanga at an end, butin the year 923 fuc eeded th cighth called Sunga, in which the Government con inued till the year of gy, Lor 1278, when the Tartars, aftera long and tedio fly deftru&ive War with, thi Family Sunga for 73 years, conquered the whole Empire, ‘extirp ting the whol Family, and fet up a new one called Ivena, which reigned over he Chinefes ti]] th year 1368. But in'the fame year appeared a Prieft called Chu,who with he affj fiance of his Country-men expelled the Tartars;and fetled himfel i f the Thron af uming the Name and Style of Hunguwus, which fig ifies the warlike Sould;er from whom {prung the Race of Taicinga, which held the C own 286 years bu at laft was brought under, and wholly rooted out in the year 1644 by the T. d) who orice more conquered and over-ranthe whole Empire, and ere&ed n w Ge neration of Royal Blood called Taicinga, under its firft Founder Xu chius, wh wasborn great Cham of Tartary. And thus having led you'as it wereby the han to the Fartar Government, it will not be amifs to'fhew you, as briefly as th Subje& will bear, as well the caufe the mannerrof that terrible Devaftation whichnot only extirpated the fame Family, but brought the whole Country to th flavith fubje&ion of their uncivilized Barbarifm The Tartars, who for Antiquity go beyond all other people i whom many and feveral Nations are fprung, did in the year 214 Birth, make very bloody Wars againft the Chinefes, wherein the Conquerours poffeflingthe Land, and at other times conquere agamn Now it isto be obferved Afia, andfro before Chrifi were fometime ‘and driven ou That underthe Name of. Tartars I underftan here, thofe people that have their habitationson the North-fide of that moft re nownedand famous Wall, in former times built againft the Invafions of thof Barbarians, and reaching from Eaft to Weft 300 Dutch miles in length For what caule or reafon thefepeople have born for fo many Ages'fo muc malice and hatred to one another (asappears by the bloody Wars they have made the Chinefe Hiltories make no mention : But others who would feem to be curious and underftanding Infpe&ors therein, afcribe it to the difference of Cufioms an Manners of thefe two Nations 5 for as parity of Manners is a concealed beginning and introdu&ion of Friendfhip 5 {o on the other hand, a difference therein i the Originaland true occafion of Enmity. Now how much the Tartarsand Chinefes differin their Cuftomsand Manners, will eafily be made appear by the dail Employments and Ations each of them affc:&s from the Cradle The Chinefe 1 of anaffable and peaceable difpofition, addifted to Huasbandry, and loving al good Artsand Sciences. But the Tartar, on the other hand, delights in nothing much as Hunting, being very cunning and deceitful, lufting after War, and of very loofe and uncivil comportment.. It is true, both endeavour to fhun idlenefs but with intentions very incoherent : the one to live temperately and honeftly but the other only to range abroad in awild and beftia! Barbarifm. It camnot be denied, but that the Tartars and Chinefes have waged War on acain{t another for many Ages, yet I dare be bold to fay, we read of none {o ternble as thofein thisour Age ;5 for thereby the Tartars have not only made them{elves Mafiers of all the faid Empire, but extirpated the laft Royal Line, that ther 1s not any Feftiginm or trace left of them in being Infhort, that the occafionh tn |