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Tin-gui may be Sin-Yang, or Tsin-yang, to the north-east of Yen-tching. Obviously Yang-tcheou, the latter syllable being its title or designation of rank and precedency. Marco certainly mistakes, from distant recollection, the direction of his travels, which are very nearly south, with a very slight deviation towards the east. South-east would by this time have led him into the sea.
Perhaps an error in transcription for Hara-moran, or Kara-moran, the Mongul or Tartar name of the Hoang-ho, or Whang river, near, and communicating with which, Hoaingan, or Whan-gan-fou is situated. This is an obscure indication of navigable canals on each side of the paved road of communication to the south. Cin-gui, or in the Italian pronunciation, Chin, or Tsin-gui, may possibly be Yen-tching.
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