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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2009
The writer of this paper is fully sensible how difficult it is to discover that which is studiously concealed, under the sanction of oaths, curses, and the (supposed,) impending vengeance of the gods; and how liable one is, even after the utmost care, to be mistaken in tracing the progress of any set of principles and schemes, which the fortunes or lives of the parties who have adopted them are concerned to hide, to varnish, to distort, and to misrepresent. He therefore offers the following remarks, not as the result of firm and unhesitating conviction, but as having a good deal of probability to support them, and as containing the substance of the best information procurable in his situation. He begs then to say a few words on the name, objects, government, initiatory ceremonies, secret signs, and seal of the said association, and to conclude with a few miscellaneous remarks.
page 240 note * For the Chinese characters, see Plate I, No. 1.
page 240 note † See plate, No. 2.
page 240 note ‡ See plate, No. 3.
page 240 note § See plate, No. 4.
page 241 note * See plate, No. 5.
page 241 note † See plate, No. 6.
page 241 note ‡ See plate, No. 7.
page 242 note * See plate, No. 8.
page 242 note † See plate, No. 9.
page 242 note ‡ See plate, No. 10.
page 242 note § See plate, No. 11.
page 243 note * See plate I, No. 12.
page 243 note † See plate I, No. 13.
page 244 note * See plate I, No. 14.
page 244 note † See plate I, No. 15.
page 244 note ‡ See plate I, No. 16.
page 244 note § See plate I, No. 17.
page 244 note ∥ See plate I, No. 18.
page 244 note ¶ See plate I, No. 19.
page 244 note ** See plate I, No. 20.
page 244 note †‡‡ See plate I, No. 22.
page 244 note §§ See plate I, No. 23.
page 245 note * For an engraving of the seal, see Plate II, No. 1.
page 248 note * See Plate II, No. 2.
page 249 note * See Plate II, No. 3.
page 250 note * See Plate II, No. 4.
page 250 note † To belong to this Society is, in China, a capital crime.
The late Dr. Milne sent these notices of this Triad Society to China, for further investigation, in July, 1821, and died on the 2d of June, 1822: and hence the paper was left in its present unfinished state.—Note by Dr. Morrison.
