Plants be- S a l lX . ■
tween Pekin ^ .
and Zhe^-hol. JLlIlUS
Nicotiana.
Allium.
Moras.
Fraxinus.
Aster.
Paeonia. 1
Matricaria.
CHAPTER IV.
'R f S i f TO -PEKIN*.’
11 ‘TftERE, AND-ATj.Y®lfcl?-HIN-TnnEiPl.' 5 i
, m v AST/^^mblage of strangers, could nnLcontinue Return to
long at .Zhe-hoL^ith.o.ut inconvepig^gg^ The princip al = = = -
of, those. ^Hp-.^tend^ tl^ere^^t^e ©G^ioiK.pi’ ther#n-
niver^ty pf.tjae Emperor Yhhth, departed frcmtthPA£&»., ■
in different directions, at^he 'same: tibiae vwi,thjmeJBriti^h
Embassador, on the twenty-fiwt o f September. ,Amongst,
those. who&eyjpute ,lay, like Etis, to the. .southward-„Wpiffl
the 'jdel-egates, Enanx Pegu, ancl c^her kingjdbms bordering
upon ysom,e ,of- the. -.Chinese, broyince&..LVery• different
moti^ef idrojp; .those, wjh. jehv. pp®asiTOfid. the ||r(^ent>Embassy,
induced the sovereigns oEthosefstate% to send ner--
sous frequently ,tq represent.them at themqnBfe iof Pekin.
Their dominions ,w^re.nqt,phlY,Kas^.inWi@cjt6 Chip-a
in extent an d p opulation • b.ut frpm j weiik ,and unstead-y
government, and the freguepcyc ^ jmtesfrine^eMvis^ojis^
•were litde able;to cqpe,with.tha^gteaLempire ;fnOT pauld
they^rely,, for their support, up on ^b & as&stanco ofipther
princes, ,.^c|ti?takby .the; jealousvnf maint lining
lanpe^of^siatia^po^eE. It was.-tker^QpgJh ecome p-e-i
nerally a m^im q£ onlidcal prudeime^witb them, fp
acknowledgeva^qrt^Af, vaj^alaggytq^