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wards, ufe it every where in the country for 

 manure. 



The rice fields, which are green on both fides 

 of the river, as far as your eye can reach, the 

 fine woods, which confifl of many forts of 

 trees, the hills, and the vallies, make the view 

 beautiful, particularly on the left fide ; but the 

 wet condition of the rice fields, and a miftruft 

 of the inhabitants, did not allow me to examine 

 things more nearly. 



There are three cuftom houfes, where all 

 thofe who go in the Chinefe boats between the 

 town and the (hips are forced to ftay. Our 

 people generally call them Tiapp-Houfes". 



These Tiapp-Hoitfes are built in part on a 

 hard (tony ground, and partly over the river, 

 fupported by polls. They have a bridge fo 

 contrived, that the boats may come to them at 

 all times, as well during the ebb as the flood. 

 And, that no one may plead ignorance, they 

 pafte their regulations on the walls; and 

 belides that, clofe to the houfe, ftands a flag, 

 marked with large Chinefe characters. The 



3 Celled by the Englifh Hoppo-Houfes. 



O 3 floops 



