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the country, fome painted, and fome not* 

 The painted china from Nanking is much 

 efteemed. The Japan china is reckoned beft. 

 The Jlone porcellane is heavier, harder, and 

 dearer than the common china. Du Halde fays, 

 that the fined comes from the little town o£ 

 Kin-te-ching. 



llA-wJilk, fuch as is clean and dry, does not 

 rub off its colour j if well packed up in chefts, 

 is the belt. 



Silk fluffs, are of all forts, of one colour, 

 as well as of many, fuch as damaiks, fatins, 

 paduafoy, taffeties, pelings, velvets, &c. 



Cottons, white, a piece commonly con- 

 tains ninety^-two koabi, or thirty-feven and 

 a half Swedijh ells, and are not in width 

 above half fuch aii ell. A piece co'fts two pefos 

 duros, or about twenty dollars of copper, 

 though fome cofl: more, when the bottomry 

 3s reckoned in : a piece of their common linen, 

 which is much finer, clofer^ flronger, and not 

 bleached, contains 1 1 3 koabi, or feventy-onc 

 three quarters Swedijh ells, and cofls four pia- 

 ftres and an ha 1 !'. Quilts, cotton- tick at four or 



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