^327:1 Geomancy is properly divination by means of lines or points drawn on the earth. The Chinese feng-shui may be called "geomancy," because it divines by means of lines noticed in the shape of streams and hills.

^330:1 In Southern China this bank is carried around the north, east, and west sides.

^332:1 This is the karma, which is essential to the Buddhist metempsychosis.

^334:1 See Essay by Rev. Dr. Yates.

^339:1 See Sir James Martin's Influence of Tropical Climates on Europeans.

^340:1 Fa-yuen-chu-lin, chap. iv. This work is a Buddhist cyclopaedia of the T'ang dynasty.

^340:2 Fa-yuen-chu-lin, chap. i.

^342:1 Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and Mythology.

^344:1 In Chinese, Lo-heu for La-hu. The twenty-eight constellations of the Chinese zodiac were identified with the Hindoo Nakshatras in the Han dynasty.

^344:2 It would be interesting to trace the effect of Greek and Indian materialistic philosophy on the formation of the modern Chinese cosmogony. It is not uncommon for doctrines to be attributed to the Chinese as a nation which only belong to a particular modern sect of the literati. While some writers attack the Chinese for beliefs which they do not hold, such an examination of the modern native philosophy might prove useful.