in the Tables, part ii.

in the Geography.

Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom.xxxii.xxxvi.xlii.

xliii.,) who discovers the gradual progress of the truth of the annals and the extent of the monarchy, till the Christian aera.

He has searched, with a curious eye, the connections of the Chinese with the nations of the West; but these connections are slight, casual, and obscure; nor did the Romans entertain a suspicion that the Seres or Sinae possessed an empire not inferior to their own.