A VIEW OF CHINA, FOR PHILOLOGICAL PURPOSES; CONTAINING A SKETCH OF CHINESE CHRONOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF PERSONS WHO STUDY THE CHINESE LANGUAGE.. BY THE REV. R. MORRISON. MACAO: PRINTED AT THE HONORABLE THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S PRESS,. BY P. P. THOMS. PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY BLACK, PARBURY, AND ALLEN, BOOKSELLERS TO THE HONORABLE EAST INDA COMPANY, LONDON. 1817. L PREFACE. THE Materials contained in this Small Volume, were at first intended to be attached to the Chinese Dictionary, Printing by Order of the Honorable the East India Company; and to be bound up with it. However, as subjects of frequent reference, they will probably be more convenient, Printed in the present form, and bound up by themselves. To avoid, in some degree, the excessive dryness of merely Foreign Names, Distances, and Dates, and to assist the mind of the Student in taking a comparative survey of the progress of human Society, during the same period of time in different parts of the world, a few of the most remarkable Persons, Inventions, and other Occurences, in the various regions of the Globe, as well as in China, are annexed to the Chronology, They occupy so little space, that no fair objection can be made to their insertion on the ground of swelling a new Book with things already very well known. |
