Quinsay

1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

Quinsay, Kingsai, Kingsa, or Kangcheu, and Quisay, a vast City in the Province of Chequin; which in 1300. was the Capital, and Royal City of China, the Residence of the Emperors: said then to be ten Leagues in length, five broad, and thirty in Circuit; containing about a Million of Families: to have twelve hundred and sixty Stone Bridges, a Lake in the midst of it about thirty Miles in circumference, four hundred and seventy Gates, with a Wall thirty Leagues in compass of that breadth at the top, that twelve Horsemen might Ride a breast without any inconvenience upon it. This City stands upon the River Cientang, about sorty Leagues from the Eastern Ocean. Some confound it with Peking. The Cham of Tartary is said to keep a Garrison in it of thirty thousand Men.