Xantung

The Tartars hearing of his death (before the China Armie had a new General aſſigned) raiſe the ſiege, ranſack all the Country round about, and after they had made excurſions to the next bordering Province of Xantung, richly laden with all manner of Spoiles, returne to their firſt reſidence in Leaotung.

In the chief City of Kingyang are three famous Temples full of Images. And in the Province of Xantung, in the chief City of Cinan, are ſeveral.

XAntung, the fourth in number amongſt the Northern Provinces, may juſtly be eſteem'd a great Iſland, being on the North, Eaſt, and South, waſh'd by the Sea, and on the Weſt by ſeveral Rivers, ſo that it is round about Navigable ; It borders Northward upon the Province of Peking, and the Bay of Xung ; in the Eaſt touches the Sea, and cut through the middle by the River Ci ; in the South it conterminates with the Province of Nanking, from which ſeparated by the Yellow River ; the remainder to the Weſt lies at the Stream Guei, and inclos'd by the Channel Jun.

Xantung may juſtly be eſteemed an Iſland, being waſhed by the Sea on one ſide, and ſeparated by ſeveral Rivers on the other, and is divided into ſix Countries.

This learned and venerable Confucius lived ſeveral hundred Years (†) before the Birth of Chriſt, was born in the Province of Xantung, as is hinted in the third Chapter, and died according to ſome in the Seventy third, or according to others in the Sixty third year of his Age.

This insect, with whose specific name we are not yet acquainted, is cultivated chiefly in the province of Xantung, like the cochineal in that of Oaxaxa, and there its breed has attained great perfection; but it is also reared with more or less success from the frontiers of Thibet to the Pacific Ocean.

There is a Chinese coccus that produces from the trees it inhabits tumours as large as a walnut, of a wax-like spermaceti. It begins to appear about June, and is gathered at the beginning of September. In China alone (where it is chiefly cultivated in the province of Xantung) this insect thus produces wax enough for the wants of the whole nation.