This city _King tching_ is that, which Marco Paulo calls _Cambalu_. _Car_ is _khan_, which signifies a _king_; and _balu_ is a corruption of an old Mogol word _balga_, or _balah_, which signifies a _city_: whence is formed the word _balgasan_ in Mogol or Mongou, which signifies city. _Khan balu_, or _khan balou_, signifies the royal city. _King tching_, in the time of Marco Paulo, was the capital of the empire of China. The Persians and Arabians, from the Mongou word _khan balou_, or _khan balgasun_, or _khan balga_, formed the word _khan balik_ or _khan balek_, which signifies also the royal city. This name was given by the eastern people to the city of _Caifong fou_, the capital of _Honan_, and to that of _Nanking_, the capital of _Kiangnan_, at the time when these cities were the court of princes. This name was also given to the cities of Tartary, when some powerful princes kept sometimes their court there. What I have remarked concerning the words _khan balik_, _khan balek_, _khan balga_, &c. is to be applied to the words _ordo balik_, _ordou balik_. _Ordo_, or _ordou_, or _orto_, signifies royal, imperial, in the Mogol or Mongou language. So _ordou balik_ signifies a court, a royal city; and these words are in fact the names of some old cities, where the Mogol or Mongou kings kept their courts. REMARKS _on_ Nº. 5, _Fan king tchang_; which is the place where the foreign classical books are kept. _Tchang_ signifies magazine, or large place, where any thing is contained. _Fan_ signifies stranger or foreigner; and _king_ signifies a classical book.