CHINA, 1751, - 22 y 



Jioufes, where you are obliged to flop; except 

 you go in a floop with a flag. The river is 

 at firll on both fides bordered with rice-fields 5 

 and this is the fatal fccne on which many laf- 

 civious Europeans r'hate lofl their health. 



The further you advance up the river, the 

 more the number of both great and fmali v ef- 

 fete increafed, part of which lie (till, and part 

 go up and down the river. Nearer to the 

 town they have fcarc'e room upon the river ; 

 but are for'ced to bear hard one againfr. ano- 

 ther behind and before j and to form, as it 

 were, ftreets, length-ways and crofs-ways. 

 Thofe Who in this manner fpend their time on 

 the water, are not all of them Jailors or fiiher- 

 men : the ferrymen, who come and fet off at 

 certain times, are in great numbers ; but the 

 rowers, or oar-men, are (till more numerous. 

 The others are tradefmen, fuch as carry on 

 fome fort of bufmefs ; they keep wives and 

 children, hogs, and chicken, together with 

 all their utenfils, in thefe boats ; for which 

 reafon they need not come on more : and there 

 are particular people appointed by the go- 

 vernment to overlook them. I can fay no 

 more of the city of Canton itfelf, than that it3 

 drawing in Lord Jnfcn's Voyage round the 

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