CHINA. 1751. 



Books are only ditched in white, and feme- 

 times in gold paper. The leaves are thin and 

 always double. The fize is large octavo. No 

 books of any other language than the Chinefe 

 are to be met with in the country : and in the 

 fuburbs of Canton are fcarcely any others than 

 almanacks : the paper is made of the inner 

 bark of bamboo tree. See he Comtek Defcripu 

 of China, p. 186. May not the bark of the 

 juniper fhrub, and of other trees, be of the 

 fame ufe ? The mirrour-makers have fome lit- 

 tle pitiful looking-glaffes. I was told of a 

 glafs-houfe in Canton, but never had an op- 

 portunity of going to fee it. It is faid, the im- 

 portation of glafs from Europe is forbidden. 

 However, the Europeans often bring glafs with 

 them, and get rofes or other flowers painted 

 on them, as the Chinefe are pretty ikilful that 

 way. 



The Ihoe-makers have learned to make Eu- 

 ropean fhoes and flippers, and fell four pair for 

 a piece of eight, or ten dollars in copper: but 

 they are indeed not worth more ; for they are 

 fewed with cotton thread, and therefore, as 

 foon as they are ufed in the wet, the feams 

 part, and the foles and heels get loofe. They 



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