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boats meeting each other in fo contracted a 

 fpace. 



We now flopped at the fecond cuftom-houfe 3 

 called Toang-pack-toy in the Chinefe language ; 

 having jufl before paffed a caflle in the middle 

 of the river, which was on our left ; another 

 cattle is fomewhat higher up ; both were fur- 

 rounded by trees : I was told, that the Dutch 

 had built one of thefe forts. 



The third cuflom-houfe is the principal : it 

 is near the factories, and the Chinefe call it 

 Tay-quam-So?ig-gunn ; it is the lafl you meet 

 with before you get to Canton : the cuflom- 

 houfe papers (Tiaps) are taken in and kept 

 here. If you were to go from Canton to 

 Bocca-tyger, you need not flop at any other 

 cuflom-houfe, except thefe three, though 

 there are many others between thefe places - 

 for next to Huam-po is the fourth, called Oty t, 

 the fifth is called O-tyoang; the fixth, Baxia- 

 tunn ; the feventh Toann-tao ; and the eighth, 

 jPho-?nunn, or the cuflom-houfe of Bocca-tyger, _ 

 or the mouth of the Tyger. 



The tower of Canton was the third that we 

 faw on this route? 



The 



