ABSTRACT
An interesting specimen of mediæval cartography, showing the geographical knowledge possessed by the Chinese (or rather Mongols), in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, of the countries west of China and Mongolia, has come down to us in the form of a rude map which has survived from a large work treating of the institutes of the Mongol empire and published in the first half of the fourteenth century. The title of this extensive work was King ski ta tien; but it seems that now only fragments of it exist. The library of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking was in former times in possession of a manuscript copy of one chapter of the work, containing an enumeration of the stations on the post-roads in China Proper and a part of Mongolia. This now belongs to the library of the Rumiantsoff Museum at Moscow.
