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was preserved in the Lieu-wen script, supposed to have been invented by She-chow. Dr Edkins _ thinks that the use of the clepsydra (or water clock), and of the astrolabe, the division of time into twelve hours, and the reckoning by six and ten combined, render “the connection of China and Babylon a certainty” (see Academy, 6th Jan, 1883). The Shu-King (or cla ic ‘‘ history ”) relates history only as early as the 8th or 9th century B.c, The Bak-sing, or “bundred families,” on the history of whom Prof.