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out (traps, were to be hired out of the city, 

 at the rate of half a piaftre. 



Most of the houfes are built of bricks, 

 and are in general as high as the aforemen- 

 tioned faftories, but fometimes lower. They 

 contain merchants {hops, working-places and 

 the ladies houfes, which are far removed from 

 the {beets. 



The ladies are continually confined ; and in 

 {hops or working-places are only men, and 

 perhaps fometimes a blind beggar woman. 



Some merchants have feveral fhops in one 

 houfe, and quite clofe to one another, in a 

 line ■ but befides them fcarce any other apart- 

 ments. They leave their houfes at night, and 

 ao home to their ladies. In the outward {hop 

 they commonly have coarfe porcellanc, fuch 

 as the Chinefe themfelves buy, a quantity of 

 toys, and the like. This mop is quite open 

 towards the ftreet, fo that the people that pafs 

 by may fee every thing in it. In the middle 

 of it is an opening to another vault, filled 

 alfo with porcellane on both fides, but of a 

 finer kind, and for the Europeans, who are 

 here not fo much peftered with impudent Chi- 



