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great quantities from £>ueda and Jahor, on the 

 Malacca coaft, with the Englifo country fhips c . 

 It is univerfally believed, that this metal when 

 mixed with lead, is ufed to plate the tea- 

 chefls. 



Tin comes in fmall pieces from Pegu and 

 Jahor, 



Lead is ufed for tea-canniflers, and to line 

 tea-chefts. 



Alum. The katty of the fine and clear 

 fort is fold at two kandarin. 



Lapis lazuli comes from the north of China, 

 and from Tibet. 



Borax, we ufed to buy annually of the 

 Dutch, after it had been refined, as a thing 

 abfolutely neceffary for our goldfmiths. But 

 probably we have already begun to refine it at 

 home; which will enable us to be fatisfied with 

 crude borax for the future ; which we can get 

 from Suratte in cur {hips, with considerable 

 gain d . 



c Country fhips are European fnips, going from India 

 only to China, and to other JJiatic places. 



d The Venetians were the firfl that refined Borax, or 

 limul as it is called before it is refined : fince whom the 



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