GEOGRAPHY, Do the Kditor of the Nonru-Curxa Dany News. to enter the lite with De. Edkina on this 8m,—I scarcely expected to have again
of, but as he has tris, marked by the cassie error Rio little more indulgence." First, Y am vious, your readers may perhaps yid
ad well aware as Dr. Edkins that Blot and many other authors stated that An-sih was 4 name for Parthia, but till I pointed out that the ancient pronunciation of the characters was Arsak (proceedings of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Teeland, Moy 1878) the identification wea not complete, It was this latter and moat important portion that Dr. Edkins appropriated without acknowledgment.
cond, that the men of Tsin, who taught the. Yarkande art of sinking wells were not, Ohinese from the north-western province". is evi the terms of 8 offered, and those terms delivery of the horses about which the war had originated, the provisioning of the Chinese army, and. the of the, ruling house to on the Chinese, Third, Sx-m:
exploit in indicating Samarkand ax It lay north-west of K'ang-ku ig-cul), north of An-h Parthia), and de adjoined a groat march with the north Aral), So of man Empi Roman Empire was Syria, and its capital 'Antioch, as the Wei Shu' quoted by Dr. Bakins plainly states, corceo!ly indicating the position of the lair. lying meats serosa the sea' (the Persian Gulf) from Tino-chi, or Sarangia, the intervening hostile-atate of Parthia cutting off the more direct passage through Persia, Nor is Dr. Edkins more happy in his now attempts at geographical elucidation. The author of the Wei Shu -is hardly erable for the absurd confusion in one sentence of the Tokhars who dwelt in Baotria, the Massagotm who inhabited the lower Oxus, and the Gotw dwelling in Mozsia along the banks of the Danube. So again what Dr, Eakins has to say (and a good deal mote), with to the intercourse of the Romans with Cambodi been alrendy better said by Colonel Yule rocoodingy of the Royal Geographical jocioty, November, 1882) and the late M. Reinaud (Relations Politiques et Commercial es de l"Empire Romain avec l'Asie Orientale).
Finally there is little mystery about the Buddhist name SEHR Ohi-na for the Chinese Empire. It is in effect identical with the Sing: or Thine of Ptolemy, and was simply the re-transliteration of the name of the Han dynasty es pronounced in ancient ChinéseDiian; compare such forma as Hi, WA, HE, &e.
It is unfortunate that Dr. Edkins, who has done good service to th of inese, ehiould think that the knowledge advanced by the crude and randoms attempt lent geography or ethnology can be at identification displayed in his two latest productions.
W. Krvosumz.
Stianghai, 12th March.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.