Quang-si

THIS is the moſt conſiderable of all the Southern Provinces. It is bounded on the North-Eaſt by that of Fo-kyen ; on the North by Kyang-ſi, on the Weſt by Quang-ſi and the Kingdom of Tong-king ; the reſt is waſh'd by the Sea, where are a good Number of commodious Ports.

After the death of the empreſs Papûſha he had been baniſhed into Korea, from whence he was removed to Quey-lin Fû, the capital of Quang-ſi.

It was on the 24th that the Tſong-tou returned from a journey which he had made to the province of Quang-ſi, which, like that of Quang-tong, was ſubject to his adminiſtration; but the Fou-yuen being obliged to ſet off the ſame day, and to go and examine the damages occaſioned by an inundation, at the diſtance of two or three days journey, his unforeſeen abſence determined the Tſong-tou to ſend, on the following day, two principal Mandarins to wait upon the Ambaſſador, and to tell him, that the was prevented by that circumſtance from giving him an audience.