For No. XX. 1732. Art. VI. Mnological, &c. Obfervations Athematical, Aftronomical, Chro Digefted by Father E. Souciet. 103 Art. VII. A Continuatio of Vol. III. of Rollin's Hiftory, &c. 119 Art. VIII. Nature difplay'ds or Conferences upon fuch Particulars in Natural History as have feemed the most fit to excite young People's Curiofity, and to form their Minds. Part I. Containing an Account of Animals, and Plants. i40 Art. IX. The Ufes of the Leibnitian and Wolfian Philofophy in Divinity: With a preliminary Differtation upon Reafon and Revelation, and upon Nature and Grace. By J. T H. C. of Wirtemberg. 172 Art. X. The prefent State of LEARNING, 198 From Petersburg, .From Upfal, From Warfaw, From Dantzig, ib. 199 ib. ib. From Leipfig, 200 From Paris, ib. LITTERARIA. ARTICLE. VI. Obfervations Mathematiques, Aftronomiques, Chronologiques, &c. Redigées & Publiées par le P. E. Souciet. That is, Mathematical, Aftronomical, Chronolo gical, &c. Obfervations.. by Father E. Souciet. Digefted Being a Continuation of Article XXVIII. Containing the Hiftory of the Five First Mogul (G.) INO Nour, laft, through an Inadvertency we need not explain to the Reader, we broke off 1omewhat abruptly in the midft of the History of the great Jenghiz Khân; which we shall now:: refume. Fenghiz Khan having made fuch Progrefs to wards the Summit of his Glory, as has been told. in the foregoing Article on this Collections continued to add to his martial Fame and ther Enlargement of his Dominion by the partial1 Smiles of Fortune, whofe Darling he feems offi all Men to h been. He fubdued manys 1204 Hoards round about him; he overthrew feveral Confederates, headed by a powerful Prince of NXX. 19 1732,11 got on to sing the - VoL. IV. 1205. 1206. 1209. the Naymans, called Tay-Yang Koban, who fell in the Battle, which was fought to the Eastward of Holin, the Situation of which we formerly noted. TRIUMPHANT in thefe Wars, he began to attack the Princes of Hin, who were Lords of a vaft Tract both in China, as it is now reckon'd, and in Tartary, as it is with us called; how far he fucceeded in this his first Attempt, we are not told, but THE next Year he rendezvoufed with his Confederates at the Source of the River Vonon or Onon, where his Name was changed, or rather his Title, from Tiemûtjin to Fenghiz, as we pronounce it, which if our Interpreter deceives us not, fignifies Sovereign Lord; for fuch they now declared him, and as fuch they now vowed him Obedience, whence with the Addition of the Title Khân, or Cam as we fometimes have it, we come to know this Conqueror, under the Stile of Fenghiz Khân: This Year he became Mafter of the weitern Tartary, by a compleat Conqueft of the Nay. mans, and the Slaughter of their King Poloyu, and his flying Son.co THREE Years afterwards, Itúbu King of the Country of Way-u-ule, offered to throw himself under the Protection of Jenghiz Khân. His Subjects have the Books of Confucius and the Book Y-King: they understand the Chinese Characters, and ufe the Chinese Calendar. This Year he entered Chenfi by the Country of Kokonor, and forced the King of Hia to a Peace. THE next Year our Conqueror refufed to pay 1210. Tribute to the Princes of Kin, and ftirred up by the Spirit of Vengeance, for the Murther of a Relation of his who had been murdered by the Orders Orders of the Kin; he the next Year entered the Province of Chanfi; and according to the Chinefe, he himself, his Brothers, and his four Sons made fearful havock in Chanfi, Petchali, Chantung, and Leaotung, during the Years 1211, 1212, and 1213; in which laft he befieged the Court, or what is now called Pekin, 1213. formerly Tekin. 1211. THE next Year the Emperor of the Kin 1214 bribed fenghiz Khan to an Accommodation by a great Sum of Money, great Quantities of Stuffs, and a great Number of Youths of both Sexes, together with a Princefs of the Blood for: Yenghiz Khan himself, who then retired to the Country of Chalar. BUT he had fcarce turned his back before the Emperor of the Kin violated the Treaty; whereupon the Moguls marched back again, and took Pekin and Leactung. It was in the Year following, that Pekin 1215; was taken and pillaged. This was done in the fifth Month, and in the abfence of Jenghiz Khan himself; the Palace was burnt; but the Emperor had withdrawn with his Court, eight or nine Months before, to Caifanfu, the Capital of Honan, then Nankin. THE Year following Fenghiz Khan appeared 1216. in Perfon, and pillaged a part of Honan; and 1217. the Year after he declared Mohali his Goverfor over the conquered Country, and Chapar his Governor for Pekin, and then retired into Tartary. WHILE MO WHILE Mobali extended the Conquefts over 1218 Corea, his Mafter the Khan turned his Arms Weltward to revenge the Injuries offered to bis Subjects, and before the End of the following H2 Year 1219. Year he made a good progrefs, and so continued to do further Weftward. 1221 1224. AT length he got to the Weftward of Samarcand, as far as a Place in English, called the IronGate, which our Commentator will have to have been Derbent, which he derives from the Turkish Demicarpi or Temicarpi, which figni'fies Gate of Iron. OUR Tranflator, or rather Tranfcriber, acquaints us, that the Chinese are very indiftinct and unfatisfactory on what this Conqueror did 1223. in the Weft; but from thence he bent his March Eastward into Perfia, and in the Year following he penetrated the Indies, where he made great devaftation. In this fame Year, fays the Chinefe Hiftory, the Moguls took the City Metena [fure they cannot mean Medina?] where, fays the fame Hiftory, reigned Mu-bannu-te, or the Lord and Law-giver of the Mohammedans. Upon this occafion it is faid, that while even Mahomet himself was alive, fome of his Difciples reached China, where they promulgated his Law. To this is added, that "Metena (which we muft confefs founds a little like Medina) is in the Neighbourhood of a Country called the Country of Heaven, which our French Commentator conjectures may mean the Holy-Land, that is, the Country of God, where "God was born and lived, as he zealously expreffes himfelf. This is a very remarkable Paffage, and may deferve an accurate Research and a deep "Difcuffion, which we leave to abler Hands than 1226. our own. THIS Year Fenghiz Khan attacked the Prince of Hin, and having taken the City of Eftina, he entered Chenfi. He fubverted the Dynafty 1227. of Him, and died in the feventh Moon of the Year |