2 2 4 TOREEN'S VOYAGE. 



ed of by the careful manner of gathering of 

 it at Cant on, and by the (linking fampanes, or 

 boats, which daily pafs by our Ihips. But 

 on the fields which were near the ihips, we 

 feldom faw any other manure than the roots of 

 rice, which, together with the clay flicking 

 to them, are thrown on the higher foil, which 

 is mixed with fpar. 



Those places which cannot be tilted, are 



planted with trees, if the high fituation and 



dry foil will allow of it. But a great part of 



fuch places are deftined for burying-grounds ; 



which practice would induce one at firfl: to 



fuppofe that the Chinefe a£led againft their 



own principles, in leaving fo much ground for 



burying-places, and by that means making 



them unfit for ufe ; fince the graves mull not 



be difturbed. But for this very realbn moft 



people are buried on deep mountains, or other 



places which cannot be ufed for other pur- 



pofes. The refpect which children and pofte- 



rity fhew to their parents and anceilors, even 



after death, is to be considered as a confe- 



quence of the implicit obedience to which they 



are obliged in their life time ; and which is the 



foundation of their exceeding great fubmiffiori 



towards the magiitrates, without which it 



would 



