xensi

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1. (obsolete)Synonym of Shaanxi.

   “And thus (as he ſaid) having purged his Army, he marched on into the Province of Xenſi to meet the Tartars, but as he marched, if he found any man remaining alive, he commanded him to be killed.”

   “In the Province of Xenſi, near the City Vucung, is a Hill called Taipe, which if a Drum be beaten upon it, preſently followeth Thunder, Lightning, and ſtormy weather, inſomuch that the Magiſtrates have forbidden all perſons upon pain of death to beat any Drum there.”

   “The Province of Xenſi extends to the Kingdom of Preſter John. Caſcar and Thebet, which the Chineſes in a general Name call Sifan it is a large Province, and is divided into eight Counties, having one hundred and eighty Cities: Sigan is the Metropolis of the whole, ſeated on the River Guei, in a moſt pleaſant and delightful place, of a noble Proſpect, and good Trade.”

   “In 1625, in digging for a foundation near Siganfu, metropolis of the province of Xensi, was found a stone with a cross on it, full of Chinese and some Syriac characters, containing the names of bishops, and an account of the Christian religion, “that it was brought from Judea ; that having been weakened, it was renewed under the reign of the great Tam,” (cir. A. D. 630.)”