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 66. TEN WANG. north of Liwchung, and west of Loong shan mountains. Just then he was successful in extorting from the Tsin Emperor the legal and legitimate use of his assumed rank of Yen Wang ; and he built a royal ancestral temple, with palaces and government offices^ in his new capital, whither he removed from Jichung, as soon as the imperial warrant arrived. Loongchung was therefore in the land which had belonged to Dwan Hienbi, and Whang was moving northwards as if to command the Yiiwun, and to occupy a centre whence to unite all Hienbi into one kingdom. Whang was meantime engaged in the more congenial air of the battle-field. He had marched eastwards to attack Sinchung, the Gaogowli city nearest his Liaotung border, and which lay south of the present Kaichow. Gaogowli, believing itself scarcely a match for the powerful Whang, made a treaty acknowledging its own subjection, instead of fighting over a city. The army was therefore sent north against Yiiwun, the original division of the Hienbi, under a son of Whang's, then thirteen years old. But a tremendous storm was brewing against Whang, of which he was not aware when re-opening the old strife with YiDgchow to the cajntal of Manchuria, Andoong doohoofoo, went through Yenkun^ distant 80 li, and Yoolo, near the Liao river. The foo was 500 li distant; and from the foo Pingyang was 800 li. Now, Pingyang, in Corea, is 500 li east from the Yaloo at Aichow, which is nearly 100 li from Fnnghwangchung, which, again, is nearly 500 from Liaoyang. The foo, then, had control of over all Gaoli, as well as Liaotung. The modem Kingchow is more than 400 li west of Liaoyang, and Yoongping is more than double that from the Liao river. This is sufficiently conclusive; but one other figure should decide beyond a doubt the site of Yingchow. Yugwan was 480 li ** west" of Yingchow ; and Ytigwan is in the neighbourhood of the modem Linyil hien, 40 li west of Shanhaigwan. The middle of the road between Ytigwan ftnd Hiangping (or Liaoyang) cannot be anywhere near Yoongping, which was west of Ytigwan, but it must be very near Sangchow. Again, the History of Liaotung places Langihan 20 li north-east of Kwangning, and Ba3rB it is now called Hoolangshan. All which is decisive in favour of the neighbourhood of the modem Kingchow, where we have sited Loongchung, &c., in Map II. This question is perhaps of no interest to any one but the writer ; but we like to locate the head- quarters of our worthies as far as this can be done. And it is perhaps neoessazy to give proof for locating cities in Liaosi, which many Chinese scholan locate in tiia centre of northern Chihli.