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man," (perhaps Nestorian) religion still exists; it still is also the name of the religion of the Persian fire-god."
The three temples abovementioned are objects of great interest to us, and
I trust we shall be able to learn from what source His Excellency obtained his information, and thus get access to a fuller account of them.
The character is explained as the name of a foreign god, sc. 胡神
in the following Dictionaries:-
說文通釋,篆字彙,正字通。韻府音。韻府約編
It is read by all Hen: the alone reading it also Yáu. If our author is correct in saying that this Shin was the same as the Shin who gave the law at Mount Sinai, then I think there can be but little doubt the charac- ter should be read Yau, as the Being designated by the builders must in that case have been IAN, i. e. Jehovah; for the Nestorians could not have built a temple to any false god.
I have translated Tá-tsin throughout “Roman empire,” as the author so explains it himself. It may mean (though I doubt it) Judea, in the Syrian Monument, but this author does not so understand it. He can make nothing of the Monument at all, as the reader will perceive. Because in the Tablet it is said, "a bright star proclaimed the happy event," and that, "Persians, seeing its brightness, came with presents," he concludes the people mention- ed were Parsees, or worshipers of fire.
ART. II. Souvenirs d'un Voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet, et la Chine, pendant les Années 1844, 1845, et 1846. Par M. Huc, prêtre missionaire de la Congrégation de St.-Lazare. 2 tomes. Paris, 1850.
[THE arrival of MM. Huc and Gabet in Canton, in Sep. 1846, from Tibet is noticed in Vol. XV, page 526 (though the former is there called Evariste), and the hope is expressed that the public may be favored with some account of their journey. This has at length been done, in two volumes, under the title given above. An account of the commencement and course of M. Huc's journey is given on pp. 617-624 of the last volume of the Repository, in an extract from a letter written by himself in the "Annals de la Foi;" in the absence of a fuller notice, and not having the volumes themselves, we have inserted the following article from the number of Colburn's New Monthly Magazine, for September, 1850. In doing so, we have inserted the Chinese characters for some of the towns on the route, and added a few topographical notes, which are put in brackets.-Ed. Ch. Rep.]