C H I N A. 1751. 3:9 



the town. I once aJfeed a Chinefe whether, at 

 lead, people of the higheft rank were never 

 buried in the town ? Is this, (aid he, with' a 

 fneer, your cufrom ? And I anfwering in the 

 affirmative, be proceeded to fay, What honour 

 can this pcilibly be to the deceafed ? We bury 

 our dead in the free, blooming fields, and 

 erect a (lone by the fide of their graves, on 

 which ail their remarkable actions are infcrib* 

 ed, that every body may read them. If we 

 fhould bury them in the honfes, they would 

 be noifome to their children, and their merit 

 would, as it were, be buried with them. 



The Chinefe graves are made on the fide 

 of hills, and look like ice-cellars. They are 

 elevated on both (ides with (tones. In (lead of 

 the door (lands a (lone, on which the epitaph 

 is hewn in large Chinefe chara&ers. 



September nth. 



I had a mind to have a nearer fight of the 

 Moorijh Pagoda {Dchihrmm Mauri tani.au), which 

 is at a good dillance from the European graves: 

 for this reafon I left the town by the fame 

 road we had taken the day before, in com* 

 Z 2 pany 



