s 3 2 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



Jlone porcellane is the heavier!:, and its price the 

 greateft. Duhalde fays, that this porcellane 

 is only made in the province of Kiangfi, in the 

 city of King-te-ching, which is faid to be a 

 league in length, and to contain a million of 

 inhabitants. Porcellane is a compofition of 

 two kinds of clay, one of which is called Pe- 

 tun-tfe, and the other Kaolin ; the latter con- 

 tains fhining particles, and keeps the whole to- 

 gether. They have lately found out a fort of 

 itone, or lime, which they call Ho-a-khe, and 

 ufe inftead of Ka-o-lin. [Their phyficians give 

 fix parts of this ftone with one part of powder 

 of liquorice wood, to cool the blood]. The 

 porcellane is glazed with Chekao, a fpecies of 

 itone like allum, or with Ho-a-khe. The Che- 

 hao is firft burnt in an oven ; to make the blue 

 colour,- they take Lapis lazuli ; and to the pur- 

 ple they add a kind of ftones which they call 

 TJin. Dnhalde feems to mean by it Cobalt , 

 with which our porcellane is painted. See Du- 

 halde' s Defcription of China, Tom. ii. p. 310, 

 31?., 314, 324. 



Umbrellos are made in great quantities, 

 of black waxed paper and bamboo-wood, and 

 fold at two dollars in copper apiece. 



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