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revolution which in 1626 occasioned in Thibet the fall and death of Tsan-Pa-Han, does not seem to have been an isolated fact. This event was doubtless intimately connected with that formidable insurrection which at the same epoch convulsed the Chinese empire, and was destined to bring about the overthrow of the dynasty of Ming, and to substitute for it the domination of the Mantchoo Tartars.

Strange notions have been taken up by Europeans of what is called the immobility of Asiatic nations; and