59. Vou-ti, the first emperor of the seventh dynasty, who
then reigned in China, had political transactions with
Fergana, a province of Sogdiana, and is said to have
received a Roman embassy (Histoire des Huns, tom. i. p. 38).
In those ages the Chinese; kept a garrison at Kashgar, and
one of their generals, about the time of Trajan, marched as
far as the Caspian Sea. With regard to the intercourse
between China and the western countries, a curious memoir of
M. de Guignes may be consulted, in the Academie des
Inscriptions, tom. xxii. p. 355