...of " the Western T'sin," where he and his companions stopped for the summer retreat, which extended from the middle of the fifth to the middle of the ninth Chinese month. When this period of devotion was ended, the pilgrims went forward till, after crossing...

...from Yorkshire up to the Firth of Forth and formed the Kingdom of Northumbria. For four centuries, from the middle of the fifth to the middle of the ninth, these four peoples developed separate destinies which gradually merged and finally resulted in the...