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fal together, hire a Chinefe fervant, who is 

 paid fome dollars per month. This perfon 

 buys every thing you want, and frequently by 

 this means avails himfelf more than by his 

 wages. Happy is the man who has not the 

 misfortune of hiring a thief into his houfe j 

 but often however it is the cafe. 



The city of Canton is the trading place of 

 China, whence all the European (hips fetch 

 their Chinefe wares, fince the trade upon A-moy 

 has ceafed : the merchants came hither from 

 thence. Canton lies in a province of the fame 

 name, under 23 deg. 8 min. north latitude, 

 and 95° 30' longitude, or 6 hours 22 min. eaft 

 from Upfal; but 3 deg. 31 min. weft from the 

 meridian of Peking. One fide of it lies on 

 the banks of the river, from which one or 

 more canals crofs the fuburbs. The houfes 

 are built on both fides clofe to the ftone bridges 

 which go over the canal ; which, for this rea- 

 fon, is not immediately perceived. Both the 

 old and the new city have the name of Can- 

 ton : the latter is not fortified : the old town, 

 which has been built many centuries, has high 

 walls and feveral gates : each gate has a centi- 

 nel, in order that no European may get in, 

 except under particular circum dances, with the 



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