543 OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



days I could not want new obje&s. I could 

 here meet with nothing that decorates our 

 Swedijb foil. Trees, herbs, birds, infects, 

 nay the earth itfelf, was a new fight in my 

 eyes. On this iiland (for fo I call it, though 

 I have never been far enough on the other 

 fide of it to know whether it is one, or whe- 

 ther it is joined to the continent) are two fleep 

 mountains toward the river, with horizontal 

 ftages, or terraffes, like fteps, on their fides, 

 on which indigo, cotton, and Chinefe potatoes, 

 were planted. On the lowed terraffes, on 

 the fide of the banejhally are feveral graves of 

 our countrymen, Danes y and Englifhmen, who 

 died here fome years ago, as the infcriptions 

 on the tomb-flones (how. For each corpfe 

 which is interred here, we pay one tel, four 

 mefs, eight kanderin, to the Chinefe. Some- 

 what higher is a Chinefe burying-place ; and 

 at the top grow fruit trees, fuch as Lang-ann, 

 &c. and the Chinefe Pine {Abies Chinenfts). 



. The foil on the hills confifts of a reddifh 

 fandy earth, which by the great heat often 

 cakes, and forms a friable fand-ftone, except- 

 ing the furface, which is kept loofe by dung 

 and vegetable earth. In thefe hills are great 

 snd imali quarry-flones, fome of which are 



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