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which the other anfwers with the fame inftru- 

 ment ; after which they wifli each other an 

 happy voyage. 



The Chlncfe can certainly make gun-pow- 

 der : neither do they feem to be miftaken 

 when they difpute the invention of printing 

 and of making gun-powder with Holland, 

 Italy, and Germany. But their powder wilt 

 hardly ferve for any thing but fireworks ; for 

 though it gives a report, and foon takes fire, 

 yet it leaves a good deal of the charcoal on 

 the paper, and feems to have but little 

 flrength. It is very peculiar that fky-rockets, 

 fquibs, &c. and even- air-guns, may be pur- 

 chafed at very reafonable prices at Canton ; 

 while the people themfelves are fo afraid of 

 fire-arms, that they would even run from a 

 black bamboo flick. 



If any body had told me before- hand, that 

 water would freeze "naturally at twenty-three 

 degrees and an half of latitude, I could not 

 have believed it. But now I had the tefti- 

 mony of my own eyes, and the Sivedijh ther- 

 mometer. Having (laid eighteen months in 

 this hot climate, the cold was fomewhat trou- 

 blefome in the open harbour, where we were 



expofed 



