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other fervices be has done to the public. Thefe 

 pictures, togctlier with fome foliage on the 

 fides, are in the place of an altar table. Both 

 upon the altar, and upon particular tables, 

 are flower-pots, incenfe, and all forts of meat 

 and drink, fuch as fruit and the like ; in par- 

 ticular large oranges*, a fpecies of fruit like 

 fweet oranges, but much larger, and having 

 a fpungy peel of the thicknefs of one's fmgcr. 

 This fruit has an agreeable tafle, is fomewhat 

 fourer than a fweet orange, and fweeter than 

 lemons. They offer the fame lacrifices in pri- 

 vate houfes ; for every body has his own idol. 

 A bell without a clapper hangs on one fide, 

 and a drum on the other fide, before the altar. 

 In other places at the entrance there are ■ 

 areas and terraffes, but on both fides flanu very 

 tail figures of men. The pagodas have never 

 any fteeple. The roofs are ornamented with 

 large dragons, lying length-ways along the 

 walls. Rich people build pagodas fometimes, 

 that their relations may be every day employ- 

 ed in burning incenfe, facriheing, and other 

 ceremonies, in commemoration ci their faint. 

 The priefb are called Vau-jlong by the Chinefe t 



" Thefe are (haddocks. 



and 



