ipo OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



three other Chinefe .wrote it down, in the pre* 

 fence of feveral Mandarins r . 



The 2d of September. 



Sam pan is a Chinefe boat without a keel, 

 looking almoft like a trough ; they are made 

 of different dimenfions, but are moflly co- 

 tered. 



There are, 



Passenger Sampanes, to carry people 

 backward and forward between the town and 

 the mips. Thefe you may hire every day; 

 and you may either take larger ones Tow-eytin, 

 or lefs ones Stmtm. They are quicker than 

 you would expecl, provided you take advantage 

 of the ebb or flood. 



These boars are as long as floops, but 

 broader, almoft. like a . baking trough ; and 

 have at the end one or more decks of Bamboo 



1 Here our authors inferted an hiftory of China, ex- 

 tracted from books in the hands of moil: Englijh readers.; 

 *Ve have therefore omitted it, as unintereiting. 



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