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to confine it in a narrow fiye ; in which, 

 though they get more fat, yet it is not fo 

 good ; and who knows whether it is not more 

 unwholefome ? 



Chicken of feveral forts are to be met 

 with here, and are fold at fuch a price, that a 

 pound came to about 10 flivers. But here, 

 as well as in every other tranfaction with the 

 Chinefe, you muft take care of being cheated. 

 One of my countrymen can teflify this, who 

 buying fome chicken, the feathers of which 

 were curioufly curled, found in a few days 

 time, the feathers growing flraight, and that 

 his chicken were of the moil common fort. 

 The Chinefe had curled the feathers up like a 

 wig, a little before he was going to fell them. 

 This is an inflance of a Chinefe who fpares 

 neither time nor pains if he can only gain 

 money, whether by fair or fraudulent means. 



Eggs were fold at three (livers apiece, (two 

 cas.) 



The Chinefe goofe is not unknown to us 

 {Anas cygnoides (3. orient a lis) ; fome had yellow 

 bills, but they are ufually black. Compare 

 with this Linn. Iter Weflrogoih. p. 145. 



The 



