510 MAP OF ASIA EXPLAINED. he marched northward; one part of his army going along the borders of India, under a lieutenant-general; while he, with the rest, took the road to Balkh, at which place the general rendezvous was appointed. -Petis de la Croix, p. 336. REMARK. In the constructing of this map, the writer has consulted the best authorities known to him. The old maps to the lives of Genghis and of Tamerlane, and that to Abul Ghazi, prove how ignorant Europe was with regard to Northern Asia a century ago. There is even now a space between Hindoostan and Siberia, and from Lake Aral to the sea of Japan, more extensive than Europe, which is scarcely known even by name. Those places, about which authors vary considerably, have been omitted, rather than incur the risk of misleading the reader. FINIS. LIST OF BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THIS WORK. ABU'L GHAZI BAHADUR, Khan of Carisme, descended in the right line from Genghis Khan.-Genealogical History of the Turks, Moguls, and Tartars, 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1730. Translated from the French, with notes. Adanson.-Histoire du Senegal, 4to. Paris, 1757. Ainsworth.-Latin Dictionary, 4to. edition by T. Morell, D. D. 1773. Avril, Father, a Jesuit.-Travels to discover a new way by land to China, A. D. 1685, 18mo. London, 1693. Ambassadors of the Duke of Holstein.-Travels to Tartary, &c. by Olearius and Mandelslo, fol. 2d edit. 1669. Augustan History, &c.-By Bernard, 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1698. This history is principally by Julius Capitolinus, Ælius Lampridius, Ælius Spartianus, and Flavius Vopiscus. When the quotations are in those names, they refer to the Augustan History. Ayeen Acbery; or, Institutes of the Emperor Akbar, 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1800. Bell, John, of Antermony.-Travels to Pekin, 2 vols. 4to. Glasgow, 1763. Bernard, John, A. M.-Lives of the Roman Emperors, 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1698. When quotations are from Bernard, they refer to his Augustan History; to which he has himself added a few lives. Bernier.-Account of the Mogul Empire, Agra and Delhi, 18mo. London, 1676. Buffon.-Sonini's edit. 12mo. Paris, An. VIII. Camden's Britannia.-By Gough, 3 vols. fol. 1789. Capitolinus.-See Augustan History. Carpini Du Plano in Hakluyt, vol. I. Catrou and Rouillé.-Roman History, 6 vols. fol. London, 1728. Chenier, M.-State of Morocco. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1788. Cherefeddin.-History of Timur Bec, or Tamerlane; from the French of Petis de la Croix, 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1723. Cherefeddin was a native of Yezd, and a subject of Timur. This history was not finished till nineteen years after Timur's death. This is the best and most authentic author; but the reader must remember, that the lion's likeness is drawn by his own painter. (Every nation is partial to its own hero). On the other hand, justice has not been done to Timur by the Turks, and his other enemies.-See Purchas, vol. 1, 2d edit. p. 319. The life of Timur by Alhacen, gives an account of an invasion of China by Timur, a circumstance not hinted at by any other writer: his history has therefore not been used. Cochrane, Capt.-Pedestrian Journey through Siberia, &c. first edition. Coxe, William.--Travels in Russia, &c. 5th edit. 1802. Cuvier, Le Baron.-Sur les Ossemens Fossiles des Quadrupedes, 4to. Paris, 5 vols. Theory of the Earth, 8vo. translated by Professor Jameson, 1813. De la Croix.-Vide Petis. D'Herbelot.-Bibliotheque Orientale, 4 vols. 4to. Hague, 1779. De Guines.-Histoire des Huns, Mogols, &c. (bound in 5 vols. 4to.) Paris, 1766. Dion Cassius, abridged by Xiphilin.-Manning's translation, 2 vols. 8vo. 1704. Dow.-History of Hindoostan, 3 vols. 4to. 1770. Drake, Francis.-History and Antiquities of York, fol. 1736. Du Halde.-Empire of China, &c. 2 vols. fol. in English, 1738. Encyclopædia Britannica, 3d edition. Genghis Khan, Life of.-See Petis de la Croix. Gibbon.-Roman Empire, 6 vols. 4to. 1788. Grew, Nehemiah.-Museum Regis Societatis, fol. 1681. Grosier, Abbé.-General Description of China, 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1788. Hakewill, Bishop of Worcester.-His Apology; or, Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World, fol. Oxford, 1635. Hakluyt.-Voyages, 3 vols. in 2, fol. 1598, and 1600. Hamilton, Walter.-East India Gazetteer, 8vo. 1815. Harris, John, D. D. F. R. S.-Voyages and Travels, 2 vols. fol. 1764. LIST OF BOOKS REFERRED TO. Haym, Nicola Francesco.-Del Tesoro Britannico, 2 vols. 4to. Londra, 1719. Herodotus.-Beloe's Translation, 2 vols. 8vo. 1819. Hutchins. Antiquities of Dorsetshire, 4 vols. fol. 1803. 513 Ides Isbrandts; (or Isbrants).—Journey through Siberia, in Le Bruyn, and in Harris's Voyages. Jones, Sir William,-Works, 8 vols. 4to. 1799. Institutes of Timour, or Tamerlane.-By Major Davy, and Joseph White, B. D. 4to. Oxford, 1783. This is a volume of maxims or institutes, political and military. For the authenticity of this book, consult the translator's preface, and Sir William Jones's fifth discourse, in vol. I. Kennett.-Antiquities of Rome, Svo. 16th edit. 1785. Lampridius.-See Augustan History. Le Blanc, Vincent.-Travels in India, &c. small fol. London, 1660. Le Bruyn.-Travels in the Levant, fol. London, 1702. Travels in the East Indies, &c. 2 vols. fol. 1737. Lempriere.-Bibliotheca Classica, 4th edit. 1801. Lesseps, M. De.-Journal Historique du Voyage de, 2 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1790. Levesque. Histoire de Russie, 8 vols. 8vo. Hambourg, 1800. Mandelslo, John Albert de.-Vide Ambassadors' Travels. Maundevile, Sir John, Knt.-Voyage and Travaile of, in the year 1322, from the original MS. in the Cotton library, 8vo. London, 1727. Maundevile was a man of learning and substance. Having inserted in his book descriptions of monsters which he had read of in Pliny, miracles out of legends, and other strange stories, his whole narration has been rejected by some compilers. His travels, by his own observations, reached from 62° 10′ north, to 33° 16′ south. He was in Persia, Tartary, China, India, Lybia, Æthiopia, &c.— He and his fellow travellers were soldiers under the Grand Khan of Cathay fifteen months. Where he can be compared with other travellers about that time, such as Marco Polo, the difference is not such as to invalidate his testimony of what he himself saw or heard while at the places he visited; and the writer has not used his authority on any other occasion: nor does Maundevile copy, but he rather elucidates Polo's history, as will be shown. He UUU was absent thirty-four years; and, on his return, he regretted that "virtue is gone, the church is under foote, the clergy is in errour, the devill reigneth, and simonie beareth the sway." This was in the year of the battle of Poictiers! Sir John Maundevile reasons on his observations of the "Sterre Antartyk," &c. and, therefrom, concludes that the earth is a globe, and that a ship might sail underneath without any fear of falling "toward the Heven, as semethe to symple men unlerned." It is not probable that his observation of 33° 16′ south, was correct. He died at Leige, Nov. 17, 1371, and was buried there, with an inscription upon his tomb, in the French of that time: "Vos ki paseis sor mi, pour l'amour Deix, proies por mi.” Milton, John.-Historical Works, 2 vols. fol. 1738. History of Britain, 1 vol. 8vo. 1695. Modern Universal History, 16 vols. fol. 1759 to 1765. Montesquieu, De.-Oeuvres, 7 vols. 12mo. Amsterdam, 1781. Ogilby, Cosmographer to Charles II.-Description of Asia, fol. 1673. Olearius. See Ambassadors' Travels. Pallas. Voyage dans l'Asie Septentrionale, 8 tom. Paris, L'an. II. Traduit de l'Allemand, par le C. Gauthier de la Peyronie. Parkinson.-Organic Remains, 3 vols. 4to. 1811. Pegge, Samuel, A. M.-Essay on the Coins of Cunobelin, London, 4to. 1766. Petis de la Croix.-History of Genghis Khan. English edit. 1722, 1 vol. 8vo. the labour of ten years. Polo, Marco.-Travels of, 4to. translated by William Marsden, F. R S. &c. 1818. —Justice is, at length, done to the Columbus of the East. The more this author is known, the higher his reputation rises. In addition to the elucidations and confirmations of the veracity of Marco Polo, which appear in this excellent edition of his travels, (to which the writer acknowledges great obligations), four or five further discoveries of his correctness will be found in these Researches. Marco Polo was many years in the service of the Grand Khan Kublai: he was three years governor of the city of Yan-gui. (M. Polo, 485). He returned to Venice in the year 1295, immensely rich. It was from reading Marco Polo's description of the great distance to which Japan reached eastward, that Columbus felt persuaded those countries |