The 3_d._ day at another Torrent of the same Name. 70. _stadia_. The 4_th._ at _Kiaghuchen_. 50. _stadia_. The 5_th._ at _Feyteri_. 80. _stadia_. The 6_th._ at the Torrent of _Seipery_. 60. _stadia_. The 7_th._ at the Torrent of _Ciam_. 60. _stadia_. The 8_th._ at _Courou_. 50. _stadia_. The 9_th._ at the Burrow of _Sape_. 40. _stadia_. The 10_th._ at _Quaranny Pira_. 40. _stadia_. The 11_th._ at _Elten eme Ambayaga_. 70. _stadia_. The 12_th._ at _Ypatan_. 58. _stadia_. The 13_th._ at _Suayen ny Pyra_. 60. _stadia_. The 14_th._ at _Ylmen_. 70. _stadia_. The 15_th._ at _Seuten_. 70. _stadia_. The 16_th._ the City of _Kirin_. 70. _stadia_. ------ 1028. All this Course being 1028 _Chinese_ Stadia, contains 369 Miles (each) of 1000 Geometrical Paces; the _Chinese_ Stadium containing as I mentioned before 360 Geometrical Paces. _A Voyage of the Emperor of _China_, into the Western _Tartary_, in the Year, 1683._ The Emperor this Year, which is the 30_th._ of his Age, made a Voyage into the Western _Tartary_, together with the Queen his Grand-mother, which they call the Queen _Mother_; he departed the 16_th._ of _July_, in the Company of more than 60000 Men, and 100000 Horse. He positively resolved, that I, with one of the two Fathers that were at the Court of _Pekin_, the Choice of which he left to me, should follow him, I chose Father _Philip Grimaldi_; because he is the most known, and because he perfectly understood the _Mathematicks_. Several Reasons prevailed with the Emperor to Enterprize this Journy. The first was, that he might keep his Militia during the Peace as well as in the Wars, in continual Exercise; and for this Reason it was, that after he had Establish'd a firm Peace in all the Quarters of this so vast an Empire; he recalled his best Troops hither out of every Province, and resolved in his Council to make every Year Expeditions of this kind, in several Seasons, that by hunting of Deer, Boars, Bears, and Tigers, they might learn to overcome the Enemies of the Empire, or at least to prevent the cooling of their Courage, or the degenerating from their Pristine Valour, by the Luxury of _China_, in a too long Repose.