ing to
rise, with the quantity of mud deposited, there is inevitably impending,
at no remote period, an awful catastrophe, involving in death and
desolation all the adjacent district.

{170} Barains is a Principality situated north of Peking. It is one of
the most celebrated in Mongol Tartary.

{218a} Gen. xxix., 1-3.

{218b} Gen. xxiv., 19, 20.

{259} This compilation was made in the fourteenth century, by order of
Pope John XXII.

{273} At this period there was no French embassy in China, and no treaty
in favour of Europeans. All missionaries, therefore, who penetrated into
the interior, were, _ipso facto_, liable to be put to death.

{285} The Thibetians call the English in Hindostan, Peling, a word
signifying stranger, and equivalent to the Chinese y-jin, which the
Europeans translate, barbarian, probably with the notion of flattering
their self-love by the implied contrast.

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