2<4 OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



The Factory is the firft place in the fuburbs 

 to which the Europeans come : this is a general 

 denomination of the houfes built towards the 

 river, or over it upon piles, and which are let 

 by the Chinefe merchants to the European fhips 

 during their itay : this time is fometimes five 

 months, and fometimes a year ; which long 

 delay, though it may arife from accidental 

 caufes, is often by defign, left feveral fhips 

 coming home at once fhould glut the market 

 with Chinefe goods : during this time the Eu- 

 ropeans lend money to a great advantage in 

 China ; but a perfon who has not borrowed 

 confidcrable fums himfelf runs great rifque, 

 when he lends his money in a place where the 

 debtor is often fought for in vain. Commonly 

 each fhip takes a factory for itfelf ; but fome- 

 times two fhips of a nation, may be together, 

 and this time it happened fo to two Swedijh fhips, 

 and if I remember right, they paid 900 tel for 

 it, which, at the rate of feven dollars per tel, 

 make 6300 dollars in fiiver. 



The* above-mentioned houfes are but two 

 ilories high, but very long ; and one end of 

 them jlretches towards the river, and the other 

 to the fa&ory-ftreet : forne are built of un- 

 burnt brick?, others of brisks and wood laid 



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