The Jews of _Caifong fou_, the capital of _Honan_, first told the Jesuit missionaries, that they conceived, that the Hebrew Bible was preserved at Peking in the place called _Fan king tchang_. These first missionaries neglected to make a search for it at Peking, or did not think of it. But it did not escape the attention of Father Bouvet, a French Jesuit, who went to _Fan king tchang_. The antient place, where the foreign books were kept, had been destroyed; and those books removed into a neighbouring _miao_ where there were bonzes. Father Bouvet went to this _miao_ with two other French Jesuits; but they found only the Koran, fragments of the classical books of the Indians, and the classical books of the lamas; the whole in bad condition. Father Bouvet thought, that he saw in an old coffer Chaldee, Syriac, and Hebrew characters. The bonze would not shew the place, where Father Bouvet thought that he had seen those characters, which, on returning to the _miao_, were not found. The emperor had ordered the bonzes to shew every thing to Father Bouvet. All the classical books were afterwards removed to the palace; the _miao_ was demolished; and there remained nothing but the name of _Fan king tchang_. When I passed thro’ _Caifong fou_, the Jews, in the presence of Father Gozani, who served me as interpreter, assured me, that I should find the Bible in the _Fan king tchang_. These Jews had not been at Peking. What they said was in consequence of what they had been told by old Jews, who were deceased. When I arrived at Peking, I made inquiries myself, and caused inquiries to be made by others; but I could not find the Bible. It is not yet an hundred years since there were at Peking some Jewish families; which afterwards turned Mahometans. A Mahometan, who was a man of parts, assured me several times, that the Bible was in the possession of the Mahometans here, whose ancestors were Jews. But when, in consequence of what he said, inquiries were made, nothing was found. This Mahometan informed me likewise, that he had made inquiries; but if he had done so, his researches proved unsuccessful. REMARKS _on the_ Ti ouang miao, Nº. 217. 1. The emperors, whose memory is honoured there, are The emperors _Tou hi_, _Chin Nong_, _Hoang ti_. The emperors _Chao hao_, _Tchouen hiu_, _Ty co_, _Yao_, _Chun_. The emperor _Yu_, the founder of the dynasty _Hia_, and thirteen other emperors of that dynasty. The emperor _Tching tang_, the founder of the dynasty _Chang_, and twenty-five emperors of that dynasty. The emperor _Ou ouang_, the founder of the dynasty _Tcheou_, and thirty-one emperors of that dynasty. The founder of the dynasty _Han_, and twenty emperors of that dynasty, who are called western _Han_, eastern _Han_, and later _Han_. The founder of the dynasty _Tang_, and fourteen emperors of that dynasty. The founder of the dynasty _Song_, and thirteen emperors of that dynasty; which is called the northern _Song_ and the southern _Song_.