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during all which time I had no opportunity 

 of being on fhore more than twenty-three 

 days. We failed to Mangulor with land and 

 fea winds, fucceilively changing* and anchored 

 there the 12th of the fame month, with the 

 fame difficulty as at Suratte. After this, we 

 did not anchor before we came to Canton. It 

 would be but a fmall expence to make a good 

 and convenient haven, behind a narrow inlet 

 which would contain a whole fleet; 



The town of Mangulor is Open and large 5 

 and contains many gardens. The houfes are 

 low, and generSlly made of a reddifh tophace- 

 ous (lone, which, as I was told, is foft under 

 ground and eaiily worked, bat grows hard in 

 the air. 



The tiles are fhaped as thofe at Suratte and 

 Cadiz. The brickmaker forms a hollow cylin- 

 der about twelve inches long, and four in 

 diameter; this is cut into two equal parts 

 lengthways, and burnt in little kilns. They 

 tile here by fingle rows, and when one row of 

 tiles is laid (o that the concave part comes up- 

 permoft, the next is inverted, and fo covers 

 the ridges. There is a conftant faltnefs in the 



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