ABSTRACT
Before concluding these volumes, it remains for me to say a few words on a Chinese itinerary, sketching the overland route from the north-western frontier to the Mediterranean Sea, of which a full translation has been presented in the first edition of my Researches, 402 but which I do not consider sufficiently interesting to be reproduced in these pages. It refers probably to the fifteenth century, was first published at the close of the Ming in a. strategical description of China, and seems to have been compiled from various itineraries noted down by the numerous Chinese envoys who in that period visited the countries of Central and Western Asia.
