life he retired to the country, and died about the year 1600. This physician is known by a work which was begun by Edward Wotton, and printed at London in 1634, folio, with the title of Theatrum Infechorum. A translation of it into English was published at London in 1688, folio. Martin Lister gives a very unfavourable opinion of this book: "As Moufet (says he) made use of Wotton, Gehrner, &c. an excellent work might have been expected from him; and yet his Theatrum is full of confusion, and he has made a very bad use of the materials with which these authors have furnished him. He is ignorant of the subject of which he treats, and his manner of expression is altogether barbarous. Besides this, he is extremely arrogant, to say no worse; for though he has copied Aldrovandus in innumerable places, he never once mentions his name." But Ray thinks that Lister, by expressing himself in this manner, has not done justice to Moufet; and he maintains that the latter has rendered an essential service to the republic of letters.

or CHEN-YANG; a city of Chinese Tartary, and capital of the country of the Mantchews or Eailern Tartars. These people have been at great pains to ornament it with several public edifices, and to provide it with magazines of arms and storehouses. They consider it as the principal place of their nation; and since China has been under their dominion, they have established the same tribunals here as at Peking, excepting that called Liu-pai: these tribunals are composed of Tartars only; their determination is final; and in all their acts they use the Tartar characters and language. The city is built on an eminence; a number of rivers add much to the fertility of the surrounding country. It may be considered as a double city, of which one is inclosed within the other: the interior contains the emperor's palace, hotels of the principal mandarins, sovereign courts, and the different tribunals; the exterior is inhabited by the common people, tradesmen, and all those who by their employments or professions are not obliged to lodge in the interior. The latter is almost a league in circumference; and the walls which inclose both are more than three leagues round: these walls were entirely rebuilt in 1631, and repaired several times under the reign of Kang-hi.