y the first Editor, from
_Fergusson's History of Architecture_.
The PALACE of the KING of MIEN in modern times (viz., the Palace at
Amarapura). From the same, being partly from a sketch by the first
Editor.
Script _Pa-pe_. From the _T'oung-Pao_.
HO-NHI and other Tribes in the Department of Lin-ngan in S. Yun-nan,
supposed to be the _Anin_ country of Marco Polo. From Garnier in the
_Tour du Monde_.
The KOLOMAN tribe, on borders of Kwei-chau and Yun-nan. From coloured
drawing in Mr. Lockhart's book as above (under p. 83).
Script _thai_ of Xieng-hung. From the _T'oung-Pao_.
Iron SUSPENSION BRIDGE at Lowatong. From Garnier in _Tour du Monde_.
FORTIFIED VILLAGES on Western Frontier of KWEI-CHAU. From the same.
BOOK SECOND.--PART THIRD.
YANG-CHAU: the three Cities under the Sung.
YANG-CHAU: the Great City under the Sung. From Chinese Plans kindly sent to
the present Editor by the late Father H. Havret, S.J., Zi-ka-wei.
MEDIAEVAL ARTILLERY ENGINES. Figs, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, are CHINESE. The
first four are from the Encyclopaedia _San-Thsai-Thou-hoei_ (Paris
Library), the last from _Amyot_, vol. viii.
Figs. 6, 7, 8 are SARACEN, 6 and 7 are taken from the work of Reinaud
and Fave, Du Feu Gregeois, and by them from the Arabic MS. of Hassan al
Raumah (_Arab Anc. Fonds_, No. 1127). Fig. 8 is from _Lord Munster's
Arabic Catalogue_ of Military Works, and by him from a MS. of
_Rashiduddin's History_.
The remainder are EUROPEAN. Fig. 9 is from _Pertz, Scriptores_, vol.
xviii., and by him from a figure of the Siege of Arbicella, 1227, in a
MS. of _Genoese Annals_ (No. 773, _Supp. Lat._ of _Bib. Imp._). Fig. 10
from _Shaw's Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages_, vol. i., No.
21, after _B. Mus. MS. Reg._ 16, G. vi. Fig. 11 from Perts as above,
under A.D. 1182. Fig. 12, from _Valturius de Re Militari_, Verona, 1483.
Figs. 13 and 14 from the _Poliorceticon_ of Justus Lipsius. Fig. 15 is
after the Bodleian MS. of the Romance of Alexander (A.D. 1338), but is
taken from the _Gentleman's Magazine_, 3rd ser. vol. vii. p. 467. Fig. 16
from Lacroix's _Art au Moyen Age_, after a miniature of 13th cent. in the
Paris Library. Figs. 17 and 18 from the Emperor Napoleon's _Etudes de
l'Artillerie_, and by him taken from the MS. of Paulus Santinus (Lat.
MS. 7329 in Paris Library). Fig. 19 from Professor Moseley's restoration
of a Trebuchet, after the data in the Mediaeval Note-book
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