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breaking out into an horfe laugh ; and is fit* 

 ting on one leg, and holding up the other 

 knee : in fhort, it is in a very indecent pofture, 

 Before it (lands an iron perfuming vafe, on 

 which matches made of wood-fhavings are 

 burning. In the upper (lory is a female fi- 

 gure, fitting with her legs acrofs, and fmiling 

 very decently with downcafl eyes. Both fta- 

 tues are of a gigantic fize, and gilt all over. 

 Out of town, in the outward apartments of a 

 pagoda fituated on a hill, are two white equef- 

 trian flames. In the mod outward room is a 

 little flame reprefenting a woman with a child 

 in her arms ; in the inner room is a larger idol 

 on a chair, which, after the Chinefe fafhion, 

 has a long beard ; and before it are four 

 other ftatues. In each houie, and aboard all 

 fhips and fampanes, is a little chapel on the 

 larboard fide, in which they burn incenfe, or 

 put orange-trees, &c. Sometimes the whole 

 chapel ccnfilts of painted, fometimes of torn, 

 paper, and a vellei with afhes and matches. 



The failors, and even fome books of voy- 

 ages (as may be feen from de Uris^s notes), call 

 the pagodas , Tofs-houfes : for, on enquiring of 

 a Chinefe for the name of the idol, he anfwers, 

 Qrande Tofs, inflead of Gran D'w. I have not 



feen 



