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which is of the fecond, and the reft of the 

 third rank. 



The fuburbs of Canton (in which the Eu- 

 ropeans live during the time they trade here) 

 are much greater than the fortified city. 



The ftreets are long, feldom (trait, about 

 a fathom wide more or lefs, paved like the 

 court yards, with oblong fand-ftones, (Cos Chi- 

 nenfts) without any gutters. The (tones are 

 full of holes, that the water may run off; 

 for the town, at lead apart of it, is built on 

 piles. Nothing is more common than to fee 

 Chinefe hogs, dogs, and chicken, about the 

 ftreets, and in the houfes : yet every thing is 

 cleanly here, becaufe poor people continually 

 go about with balkets and gather up all the 

 filth. I never faw any other animals, fuch as 

 are ufual with us, not even horfes, though 

 they are to be met with in the country : where 

 alfo I faw buffaloes, which were kept off from 

 the plantations (which have feldom any fence 

 round them) by people appointed for that 

 purpofe. No carriage is to be met with in 

 the city ; and whatever is brought from one 

 place to another, fuch as hogs, ducks, frogs, 

 {hails, roots, greens, &c. is all carried on 



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